Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
Michael J. Saylor
Related I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher RICK RIORDAN I was looking around for study guides for college algebra. As a first-grade teacher, I don't use col... KAREN CHRISTENSEN We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound comm... WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD In any classroom, all children are not on the same level, ... When I was a high school teacher, I st... DONNA KING Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. JOHN RAY It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time. DEJAN STOJANOVIC Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is ... FRAN LEBOWITZ The parent does not have to know Algebra II by asking these questions. DR. HENRY JOHNSON Algebra is a form of low cunning. WILLIAM JAMES The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas ... CARL GUSTAV JUNG The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas ... CARL JUNG I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of alge... NANCY ROMAN Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial, is trivially trivial. ANONYMOUS I write emotional algebra. ANAïS NIN [T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment. CONRAD POTTER AIKEN (USED PSEUDONYM SAMUEL JEAKE, JR.) I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive. TIM ALLEN I'm kind of waiting for an algebra book. ROBERTO MARTINEZ What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE I didn't hear a question, That is algebra, and you could do it, yes. TIM BELDEN We need to be having a conversation on all that is needed to gain and retain highly qualified teache... MARIANNE CAPOZIELLO Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make... TIM ALLEN I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but ... NATHAN KRESS If you don't know your algebra, you'll blow the lights and ruin the scene. GREG HAUPTNER I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra. TAYE DIGGS Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good l... TIM ALLEN It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent wil... NEL NODDINGS Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your o... DANIEL GOLDSTEIN When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and ... CLARENCE THOMAS One minute, I'm a tragically average, fair and freckled eighth-grader with algebra homework. The nex... ANNE CLENDENING I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that. IAIN DOWIE I don't think they can do as well if they haven't had algebra I and II and geometry, and are avid re... REED JACKSON There is nothing I detest more than an algebraic word problem. DEDRICK D. L. PITTER When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth,
think of Chemistry class. LORI BRAUTIGAM Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher. MAGGIE GALLAGHER An incoming ninth-grader who hasn't passed algebra is certainly at risk of failing the exit exam. KAREN RIZZI The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer rea... ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult... E. W. HOWE Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the id... PETER MCWILLIAMS Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the
perfect timing for your learning it, and the id... PETER MCWILLIAMS Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the id... PETER MCWILLIAMS No. 1 is dealing with their teachers; they feel like say a teacher is wrong - no one wants to believ... KAREEM EVANS In Math class we learned more about algebra today, such as X+10=Y should I care? ANONYMOUS In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. FRAN LEBOWITZ I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried. SHELLEY HENNIG Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no s... SAM HARRIS If you look at a lot of the statistics, algebra I is one of the most failed courses for high school ... JACK FISHER I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I j... PARDIS SABETI As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. COKIE ROBERTS Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Inste... SUSAN CAIN Finding a treasure is like working on algebra equations, all you have to do is find the X. ANONYMOUS My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not... CONDOLEEZZA RICE And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra. SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If calculus or algebra were required to be a great investor, I'd have to go back to delivering newsp... WARREN BUFFETT Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is wi... COMTE DE LAUTREAMONT We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida. TED DEUTCH I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there. BILLY CONNOLLY So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Thing... SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Life is like a problem in algebra and if you want a solution ,you must think out of box.... PRABHA Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sc... NOAM CHOMSKY Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dys... BAUVARD I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was... NATALIE BABBITT If kids are behind, they need more time in school. We have kids who come to us in fifth grade as non... CALEB DOLAN When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home. GEORGE GAMOW From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and ... GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud... MARY OLIVER ...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and pre... GUY DE MAUPASSANT Teaching that begins with questions is both a moral and a pedagogical choice. A teacher teach... NICHOLAS C. BURBLES Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. MARVIN MINSKY My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small. MARIO TESTINO We need to have transparency. There's all sorts of questions about whether this is good from a civil... CAROL ROSE the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that... RALPH WALDO EMERSON There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teac... BERENICE ABBOTT Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are ... RUDOLF STEINER Surprisingly, Utah is the second highest in the nation in the number of eighth-graders taking algebr... DAVID WRIGHT All of that snorting, it's just like an algebra problem. We're going to give him a job. By giving hi... MARGO DEWKETT Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just... TOMMY HILFIGER There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whol... THOMAS FRIEDMAN Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves LEONARD ROY FRANK We need about four or five days of really good weather and good winds. ANTHONY GRIFFIN In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and... CARLOS SLIM Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, it is clear that we've got... JOHN DELANEY Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is w... LINDSAY FOX I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there. BILLY CONNOLLY Life Algebra 101 - I truly value my own ignorance of what is to come for me, It is those unknown var... DONAVAN NELSON BUTLER, MASTER SERGEANT US ARMY Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be. DAVID THORNBURG But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings... ROBIN SLOAN It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathema... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever act... MILAN KUNDERA It crosses the line of student-teacher relations. There's no acceptable reason for why a teacher wou... LUCY BERRY I think whoever came up with this idea understands the online music industry about as well as a cow ... PHIL LEIGH The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, o... RUDOLF CLAUSIUS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Any teacher that can be replaced by technology deserves to be. DAVID THORNBURG Teachers don't want to have a letter sent home saying that they are not highly qualified, ... We lik... CHRIS MILLS One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a te... SHIV NADAR When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what m... CECILIA BARTOLI I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days. And here I thought... ELIZABETH EULBERG There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases tha... ROSE GEORGE Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and... MARVA COLLINS I know you very well, and I know you need a good English teacher. MAYA ANGELOU
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FOX In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the... MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO The sense of respiration is an example of our natural sense relationship with the atmospheric matrix... MICHAEL J. COHEN They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintel... MICHAEL J. BEHE The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. MICHAEL J. FOX What other people think about me is not my business. MICHAEL J. FOX I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's j... MICHAEL J. FOX If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor... MICHAEL J. FOX It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE