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.'
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.
From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.
The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to.
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