Quotes by Paul Lockhart

Paul Lockhart

[Math is] not at all like science. There’s no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations.

Imagination

Math

Use

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

Math

Nomenclature

Teacher

A good problem is something you don’t know how to solve. That’s what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Opportunity

Problem

Solve

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Beautiful

Math

Meaningful

I don’t see how it’s doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.

Diagrams

Hate

Memories

If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn’t possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn’t have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

Children

Crush

Jobs

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?

Data

Teacher

Teaching

In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide – a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.

Kids

Math

Thinking

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

Journey

Math

Stories

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

Enjoy

Mathematician

Thinking

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Art

Beautiful

Book

Children

Crush

Data

Diagrams

Discovery

Education

Enjoy

Expression

Feelings

Games

Good Times

Hate

Helping Others

Ideas

Imagination

Inspiration

Jobs

Journey

Kids

Kind

Language

Long

Math

Mathematician

Mathematics

Meaningful

Memories

Misunderstood

Nomenclature

Numbers

Opportunity

Poetic

Problem

Psychedelic

Real

Solve

Stories

Teacher

Teaching

Thinking

Unique

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Quotes by Paul Lockhart

Paul Lockhart

[Math is] not at all like science. There’s no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations.

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

A good problem is something you don’t know how to solve. That’s what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

I don’t see how it’s doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

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