Math in Africa

Mathematics has beauties of its own. - J.W.A. Young

Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe

Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein

Academy: A modern school where football is taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Surgeon: The person who was a cut-up at medical school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Conflict Of Interest: A dental school with a hockey team - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. - Robert Heilbroner

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. - George Givot

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. - Theodore Roosevelt

College Education: A four-year plan for confusing a young mind methodically. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - Edward Gibbon

I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - E.C. Titchmarsh

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra

Life is good for only two things: discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics. - Simeon Poisson

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. - Roger Bacon

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis. - Elvis Presley

If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I used the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. - Fred Allen

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. - Christopher Columbus

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. - Mark Twain

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence. - Steven Wright

Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. - Bertrand Russell

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. - Mark Zuckerberg

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. - Ronald Reagan

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell

When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness where the explorers often get lost. - W.S. Anglin

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man. - Maria G. Mayer

With the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital. - Stephen Covey