W. W. Sawyer famous quotes

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The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.
-- W. W. Sawyer

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Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
-- W. W. Sawyer

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In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers to these questions. In fact, for every pattern that appears, a mathematician feels he ought to know why it appears.
-- W. W. Sawyer

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Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather, he will try to discover the correct idea behind the inadequate expression. This is one of the most important principles in the whole of the art of teaching.
-- W. W. Sawyer

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When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because our imagination is not touched. One can begin to reason only when a clear picture has been formed in the imagination. Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
-- W. W. Sawyer

#Education #Teaching #Imagination
You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command.
-- W. W. Sawyer

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The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.
-- W. W. Sawyer

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Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.
-- W. W. Sawyer

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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
The present syllabus in our high schools corresponds almost exactly to what was known in 1640.
Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

W. W. Sawyer famous quotes

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