"A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." --- Plutarch

1. "A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled." --- Plutarch

2. "The second most important job in the world, second only to being a good parent, is being a good teacher." --- S.G. Ellis

3. "How you teach is more important than what you teach."

4. "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." --- Chinese Proverb

5. "Polar coordinates aren't just arctic fashions."

6. "The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated." --- Ben Franklin

7. Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics."

8. "The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal." --- William James

9. "The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple." --- S. Gudder

10. "The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver." --- I.N. Herstein

11. "Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater." --- Albert Einstein

12. "Wherever there is number, there is beauty." --- Proclus

13. "The best teacher is not the one who knows most, but the one who is most capable of reducing compound knowledge to that simple of the obvious and wonderful ..." --- H.L. Mencken

14. "It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think." -- John Wesley Young

15. "Mathematics is not a spectator sport!"

16. "A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction." -- Tolstoy

17. "Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. " --- John Allen Paulos

18. "We only think when confronted with a problem." --- John Dewey

19. "Geometry is the foundation of all painting."

20. "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." --- Paul Halmos

21. "We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future -- you create the future. The future is created through hard work." --- Jaime Escalante

22. "I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine -- mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books." -- M.C. Escher

23. "Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless." -- Euripides

24. "My philosophy of learning, like my blood type, is be positive.

25. Keeping student attitudes positive is vital to their success in learning. – David Pleacher"

26. "Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind." -- Hermann Weyl

27. "Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." -- Mickey Mouse

28. "The only angle from which to approach a problem is the TRY-Angle." TRY

29. Men who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

30. "Not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein

31. "We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.“-- Parker I. Palmer in The Courage to Teach.

32. "How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capitol building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?

33. "Bees … by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought … know that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle, and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material." -- Pappas

34. "The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.“ -- James Baldwin

35. "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." -- Mike Ditka

36. "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" -- Thomas Edison

37. "Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the borderline between the two respective domains.“ -- M.C. Escher

38. "A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" -- Martin Gardner

39. "A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas." -- G. H. Hardy

40. "We cannot hope that many children will learn mathematics unless we find a way to share our enjoyment and show them its beauty as well as its utility." -Mary Beth Ruskai

41. "Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?" -- Dr. Seuss

42. "There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet."

43. "Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation." -- Mark Twain

44. "Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.“ -- John A. Van de Walle

45. "Learning to solve problems is the principal reason for studying mathematics." -- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

46. "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." -- Jack Kinder

47. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.“ -- Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

48. The symbolism of algebra is its glory. But it also is its curse." -- William Betz

49. "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true ... I no longer know how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup

50. "If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane." -- Jimmy Buffett