Edward G. Begle Quotes

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

Edward G. Begle

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• Good is not good when better is expected.

  

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• But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

  

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• When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.

  

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• Sri Sathya Sai Baba as a preacher of the highest human values was an iconic figure for over five decades. He endeared himself to the people through various institutions, with headquarters at Prashanthi Nilayam, that promoted egalitarian values, education and public health.

  

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• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  

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• Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

  

  Edward G. Begle
  • Education
  • Mathematics
  • Expected