Robert Eastaway quotes

There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
-- Robert Eastaway

#Education #Math #Self

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary. And here again, first place must be taken by the development of character, especially the promotion of will-power and determination, combined with the training of joy in responsibility, and only in last place comes scientific schooling.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.