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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
We are all of us imprisoned in our habits. The essential of education is to foster correct habits. It is easier for a mentally defective child to develop the rhythm of research than it is for a normally intelligent adult who has been subjected to fifteen years of parrot learning.
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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Education is essentially the direction of mental energy. Children have abundant energy looking for an outlet. If adult society provides a satisfactory outlet, hobbies develop into professions and adults find life in their work. If adult society fails in providing an outlet, a double disaster occurs. The child has no energy or enthusiasm for work; and the child's energies are left to find an outlet at random. Society has then abdicated its duty to educate.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
My concern has always been to promote joy in mathematics for all-ability pupils, and the driving force has been a feeling that must be shared by anyone who has derived great pleasure from any subject - intense regret that the subject in question is so often presented in a way that produces dislike, worry and a sense of failure.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
The main task of any teacher is to make a subject interesting.
Duty | Energy | Teacher | Understand |
W. Edwards Deming, fully William Edwards Deming
Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
The appeal of arithmetic to infants is usually self-evident and recognising unusual mathematical maturity is not difficult. The unjustified fears of some educationists about allowing children to forge ahead, needs discussion and recognition of the need for young mathematicians to work in depth and at speed.
W. Edwards Deming, fully William Edwards Deming
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
The practical value of mathematics lies in the fact that a single mathematical truth has a multitude of applications. If children can handle numbers with confidence and enthusiasm, they will be able to apply arithmetic to any situation that later life may bring.
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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Mathematicians, it is often said, tend to be musical. It is less well known that problems arising from music have played an important role in the discovery of fundamental mathematical ideas. Questions about the vibrations of a piano string led to a fierce controversy that forced mathematicians to clarify their ideas about area, continuity, and the convergence of series.
Education | Knowledge | Nothing | Opportunity | Will | Trouble | Teacher |
W. Edwards Deming, fully William Edwards Deming
Lack of knowledge – that is the problem.
Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
Neither natural ability without instruction nor instruction without natural ability can make the perfect artist.
Knowledge | Means | Right | Understand |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Dialectics is the teaching which shows how Opposites can be and how they happen to be (how they become) identical,—under what conditions they are identical, becoming transformed into one another,—why the human mind should grasp these opposites not as dead, rigid, but as living, conditional, mobile, becoming transformed into one another.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
Furthermore, since I have observed that our citizens are distracted with public affairs and private business, I have thought it best to write briefly, so that my readers, whose intervals of leisure are small, may be able to comprehend in a short time.
Knowledge | Philosophy | Principles | Problems | Will |