As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.
Koichiro MatsuuraRead
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their own conjectures and discoveries, to be wrong, to be creatively frustrated, to have an inspiration, and to cobble together their own explanations and proofs-- you deny them mathematics itself.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of active engagement in learning mathematics.
Paul Lockhart's quote illustrates that mathematics is not merely about finding correct answers, but about exploring concepts, posing questions, and discovering personal understandings. He insists that denying students the chance to engage creatively and make mistakes prevents them from truly experiencing the essence of mathematics, which is fundamentally an art form of explanation and reasoning.
Themes
MathematicsEducationLearningCreativityEngagement
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used at the beginning of a mathematics workshop to inspire educators.
Similar quotes
Schools teach you how to work for money, but don't teach how to make money work for you
Robert KiyosakiRead
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.
Jean PiagetRead
It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
Natalie PortmanRead
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
James Earl JonesRead
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead