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“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

“America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number one in the proportion of college graduates. We now rank ninth. And at an age where knowledge, skills, are the determinant of how successful we're going to be, unless we reverse that we're going to keep slipping behind economically to a lot of other countries.”

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.”

“Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals.”

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”

“The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

“The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.”