Unfortunately, mathematics education aims to teach the written language of mathematics before its students have learned the spoken language.
This is a profoundly important point: all successful pedagogy is seduction. Only a smitten student can give to the art all that it requires.
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The crucial thing is to fascinate and tantalize. It is easy to teach a fascinated, tantalized student. It is futile to teach any other kind.
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My pedagogical motto is Alphonse Karr's elegant remark: "Love is a sport in which the hunter must contrive to have the quarry in pursuit."
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