Quotes of: Lamentation Keyword

An Evening Air I go out in the grey evening In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation. I go out into the hard loneliness of the barren field of grey evening In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation. In the gathe...

Samar Sen

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

Siren's Lament and Other Stories

And Jabim is the Lord of broken things, who sitteth behind the house to lament the things that are cast away. And there he sitteth lamenting the broken things until the worlds be ended, or until someone cometh to mend the broken things. Or sometimes ...

The Gods of Pegana

It's lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It's lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.

Dick Cavett

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Mathematics is the art of explanation.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.

The Lament of Sky

How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our hearts and were cut apart?

Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Epictetus

Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like water.

The Dog Stars

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.

Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have it's members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triang...

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

There’s a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.

Perjury