Top Reasons To Be A Math Teacher

Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra? - George Carlin

Bison: What you say when your child leaves for school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Most every dental school has discount dental services. - Matthew Lesko

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell

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

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. - Terry Pratchett

The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. - Henry Brightman

Academe: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. - George Polya

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about. - Nick Cave

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

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen

Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. - Alfred Whitehead

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth... think of algebra. - Will Rogers

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

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver

University: 1. A college with a stadium seating more than sixty thousand; 2. A mental institution. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy. - Alfred Renyi

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

Graduate School: The place where a young scholar goes off his Dad's payroll - and on to his wife's - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns

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

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? - Lynette Mather

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

Aftermath: 1. The period following algebra; 2. The horrible headache you have when you've finished the algebra test. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number pi. - William L Schaaf

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian

I've been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. - Jenny Holzer

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

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

Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint. - Callum Turner

I was named the Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. - Guillermo Diaz

I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. - Thomas Mann

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you. - Malaika A. Khan