In this perspective-expanding and enjoyable talk, Dan Finkel invites us to approach learning and teaching math with courage, curiosity, and a sense of play.
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Let the improvement of yourself keep you so
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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Without sacrifice, how can there be success? —
Without sacrifice, how can there be success?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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A teacher will be frustrated if she is
A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.
— Tanya R. Liverman, Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education
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Experience teaches you, what you miss in your
Experience teaches you, what you miss in your education.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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If ever I was running, it was towards
If ever I was running, it was towards you.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
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Directing the mind to stay in the present
Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.
— Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
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I just want your voice aimed at me
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes?
— Jennifer Elisabeth
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The thing I want you especially to understand
The thing I want you especially to understand is this feeling of divine revelation. I feel that this structure was “out there” all along I just couldn’t see it. And now I can! This is really what keeps me in the math game– the chance that I might glimpse some kind of secret underlying truth, some sort of message from the gods.
— Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician’s Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
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To learn something new, you need to try
To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.
— Roy T. Bennett
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Love is my drug of choice, even if
Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
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Your comfort zone is a place where you
Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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You learn something valuable from all of the
You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.
— Roy T. Bennett