Math Teacher Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

To teach effectively a teacher must develop a feeling for his subject; he cannot make his students sense its vitality if he does not sense it himself. He cannot share his enthusiasm when he has no enthusiasm to share. How he makes his point may be as important as the point he makes; he must personally feel it to be important.

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.

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.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

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.

This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.

The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it.

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!

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

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.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

Well I was about to be expelled from school, I had been arrested and a teacher said: "Why don't you try acting, instead of distracting the class? Why don't you use your comic talent for something more productive?" My maths teacher suggested I do comedy and I decided to have a go. I pursued it after that. I was about 17.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

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.

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

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

I was working at Kentucky Fried Chicken when my math teacher said, "You're failing in school, you're messing up, why don't you just try this?" I said, "Alright, let me try it," and I started going to acting classes and I loved it. I thought, "I may not make it but I love doing it."

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.