Paul Lockhart - If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a chil

If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done-I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

- Paul Lockhart

source: "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

topic: Crush, Jobs, Children, Being Done, Natural Curiosity