John Wesley Young quotes
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“It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.”
-- John Wesley YoungSource : John Wesley Young, William Wells Denton, Ulysses Grant Mitchell (1930). “Lectures on fundamental concepts of algebra and geometry”
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“"The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."”
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“The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.”
Source : Abraham Flexner (1910). “Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching”
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