Little Johnny was doing very badly in math. His parents had tried everything; tutors, flash cards, special learning centers, in short, everything they could think of. Finally in a last
ditch effort, they took Johnny down & enrolled him in the local Catholic school.
After the first day, little Johnny came home with a very serious look on his face. He
didn’t kiss his mother hello. Instead, he went straight to his room & started
studying. Books & papers were spread out all over the room and little Johnny was hard
at work. His mother was amazed. She called him down to dinner and to her shock, the minute
he was done he marched back to his room without a word and in no time he was back hitting
the books as hard as before.
This went on for sometime, day after day while the mother tried to understand what made
all the difference. Finally, little Johnny brought home his report card. He quietly laid it
on the table and went up to his room and hit the books. With great trepidation, his mom
looked at it and to her surprise, little Johnny got an A in math.
She could no longer hold her curiosity. She went to his room and said, “Son, what was
it? Was it the nuns?”
Little Johnny looked at her and shook his head, no.
“Well then,” she replied, “was it the books, the discipline, the structure,
the uniforms? WHAT was it?”
Little Johnny looked at her and said, “Well, on the first day of school, when I saw
that guy on the wall nailed to the big plus sign, I knew they weren’t fooling
around.”
I go to school the youth to learn the future. - Robert Frost
Obvious: The most dangerous word in mathematics - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. - George Santayana
Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles. - Maya Lin
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. - Bill Watterson
Dear Math: I'm not a therapist. Solve your own problems. - Unknown
Well, another day has passed and I didn't use Algebra once. - Unknown
Pew: A medieval torture device still found in Catholic Churches - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. - Donald Trump
Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown
Drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time. - Neil Peart
I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra
Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. - George Polya
To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright
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
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards. - Mark Twain
I'm a Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. - Jack Kerouac
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem
Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically. - Joe Scarborough
If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society. - Jaden Smith
It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. - Nicholas Negroponte
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life there is no such thing as algebra. - Fran Lebowitz
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
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. - James Newman
Probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number pi. - William L Schaaf
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves
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
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. - Bruce Springsteen
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else too. - Meryl Streep
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes. - Robert T Kiyosaki
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 love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school. - Unknown
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
Mushroom: 1. A motel for quickies; 2. The place where they store the school food; 3. A room that has no sides, no walls, no doors and no ceilings. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
If it's green, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it has numbers, it's math. If it doesn't work, it's technology. - Unknown
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