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. Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe 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 see also College, Little Johnny, Religious & School Sections Chocolate Math Hangman Math How Can This Be True, Math Nerds? Math Clock Mennonite Longhand Math Proof That “7 x 13 = 28” |
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