Paul Halmos Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Answers, Students

• It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

  Paul Halmos

  Teacher, Teaching, Knowledge

  Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag

• ... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

  Paul Halmos

  Math, Giving, Lines

• Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Teacher, Math

• A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
  surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
  better.

  Paul Halmos

  Clever, Students, Graduates

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