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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." »William Arthur Ward
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"It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain." »Albert Einstein
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"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell
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"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself." »John Jay Chapman
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"Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours." »Albert Einstein
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"A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon." »Maria Montessori
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"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon." »Maria Montessori
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"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." »Buddha
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"May not Music be described as the mathematics of sense, and mathematics as the Music of reason?" »James Joseph Sylvester
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"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery." »Lao-Tzu
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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"mathematics is the queen of the sciences." »Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." »Francis Bacon
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"mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." »Galileo Galilei
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"mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." »Bertrand Russell
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"mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis." »Robert Heilbroner
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality." »Hermann Weyl
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"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." »Albert Einstein
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"mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God." »Herbert Westren Turnbull
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"Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry." »Stephen Hawking
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number." »Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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"Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week." »Eric Temple Bell
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"mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations." »Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
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"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry." »Bertrand Russell
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"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry." »Bertrand Russell
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