Browsing Topic Best Math Teacher Quotes

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

A valuable lesson I’ve learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

I’d never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

If I’d loved my chemistry teacher and my maths teacher, goodness knows what direction my life might have gone in. I remember there was a primary school teacher who really woke me up to the joys of school for about one year when I was ten. He made me interested in things I would otherwise not have been interested in – because he was a brilliant teacher. He was instrumental in making me think learning was quite exciting.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that’s what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.

In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn’t teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city – wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

Since I was born I wanted to entertain and communicate. I wanted to communicate so badly … My sixth-grade math teacher taped my mouth. I’m still out to get her [for that]. It was very traumatizing!

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.