Paul Halmos Quotes About Teachers

Quotes about: Teachers

• A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

  Paul Halmos

  Teacher, Teaching, Challenges

• 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

• 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

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