Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out Of Our Most Fascinating And Imaginative Art Form

Quotes

• “The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was "out ...”
• “No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number "while 5/2 is a...”
• “Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? ...”
• “[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with ...”
• “A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.”
• “Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.”