John G. Kemeny Quotes

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

  John G. Kemeny

  Matemáticas, Ciencia, Hombres

  John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”

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• ...it is the greatest achievement of a teacher to enable his students to surpass him.

  John G. Kemeny

  Teacher, Teaching, Math

  John G. Kemeny (1964). “Random Essays on Mathematics, Education, and Computers”

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• If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all of them, and this is the role of abstraction. If you look at each too closely you see too many details. If you get far away things may appear simpler because you can only see the large, broad outlines; you do not get lost in petty details.

  John G. Kemeny

  Distance, Learning, Views

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• La única razón por la que los estudiantes de psicología no tienen que hacer más matemáticas y más difíciles que los estudiantes de física es porque los matemáticos aún no han descubierto formas de enfrentarse a problemas tan difíciles como los de psicología.

  John G. Kemeny

  Psychology, Way, Students

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• A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?

  John G. Kemeny

  School, Careers, Technique

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