But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
Interpretation
Understanding the process is more valuable than simply finding the correct answer.
This quote emphasizes the importance of comprehension over mere correctness in learning, particularly in mathematics. It suggests that a deep understanding of concepts facilitates better problem-solving abilities and fosters a genuine interest in the subject rather than a focus solely on achieving the right results.
In practice
During a math workshop, a facilitator could use this quote to encourage participants to focus on the concepts instead of just the answers.
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.
You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.
Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.
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