Top Reasons To Be A Math Teacher
Sines of great teaching at Grove City College
10 - You know all the angles
9 - Life always adds up
8 - You know all the pi jokes
7 - Irrational is not so bad
6 - Infinity and beyond... been there, done that
5 - It’s OK to be obtuse
4 - You always knew your raise would be an imaginary number
3 - You can do the math
2 - You believe in a Higher Power
1 - You’ve got the best pickup line: “What’s your sine?”
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I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein
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Well, another day has passed and I didn't use Algebra once. - Unknown
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. - Terry Pratchett
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. - Alan Turing
College Education: A four-year plan for confusing a young mind methodically. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. - George Polya
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. - E.C. Titchmarsh
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein
Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. - Alfred Whitehead
When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth... think of algebra. - Will Rogers
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins
I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math. - Tina Fey
Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. - David Hilbert
Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. - Nicholas Negroponte
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce
Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what is said is true. - Bertrand Russell
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy. - Garrison Keillor
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school. - Haruki Murakami
You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess, and you have to use geometry like billiards. - Bill McBride
I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves
It is the studying you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows. - Henry L. Doherty
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
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. - Michael Dell
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. - Bertrand Russell
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
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I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen