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Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
Colin Powell
Education
Family
Self-Respect
Commitment
Reading
Duty
Caring
System
Jobs
Civic
More
Only
High-Quality
Fairness
Learn
Math
Get
Children
Want
Gain
Them
Avoid
Deserve
Violence
Need
In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen Hawking
Me
Physics
School
Father
Thought
Made
Chemistry
Biology
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
He
Because
Boy
Least
Math
Mathematicians
Did
Wanted
Less
Bright
Brightest
Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Bruno Mars
Music
You
Science
Incredible
Stuff
Until
Becomes
Math
Mixing
Up
Blows
Keep
To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.
Catherine Asaro
Mathematics
You
Problems
Before
Solve
Know
Math
Basic
Start
Applying
Need
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can't concentrate on it. People always say, 'You should have tried harder.' But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Day
You
People
School
Focus
Sit
Homework
Say
Worst
Tried
Could
Knack
Never
Cheated
Concentrate
Learn
Because
Always
Got
Math
Truly
Lot
Just
Want
Should
Harder
Actually
Things
Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
Maren Morris
Education
Music
Creative
Science
Dance
Public Schools
Fine
Fine Arts
Put
Emphasis
Abysmal
Schools
Math
Math And Science
Same
Arts
Arts Education
Anything
Theater
Public
Really
Should
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama
Wisdom
Democracy
You
Will
Long
Party
Congress
Monopoly
President
Our
Deficit
Spending
Tell
Wealthy
Somehow
More
Compromise
Allies
Never
New
Along
Well
Without
Go
His
Math
Governor
Governor Romney
Refuse
Tax
Tax Breaks
Romney
Breaks
Us
Lower
Works
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
Danica McKellar
Me
You
Women
People
Thought
Say
Recognized
TV
Would
See
Silly
Having
More
Could
Never
Crumbling
Come
Self-Esteem
Make
Gosh
Accessible
Were
Math
Heard
Up
Friendly
Person
Oh
So Many People
Just
Wanted
Noticed
Who
Many
Why
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
Danica McKellar
Dreams
Change
People
College
People Change
Believe
Abandon
Classes
Couple
Majors
Math
Lots
Just
Avoid
In math, you're either right or you're wrong.
Katherine Johnson
You
Wrong
Math
Either
Right
More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.
Rex Tillerson
Knowledge
Science
People
Think
Positions
Jobs
More
More And More
Demand
Most
Math
Math And Science
Auto
Including
Now
Deeper
Medical
Technicians
Technologies
Applying
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren.
Seth Shostak
Life
Alone
Words
Simple
Space
Believe
Other
Worlds
Our
One Percent
Able
Percent
Seems
More
Takes
Support
Dead
Frequency
Math
Exist
Lot
In Other Words
Galaxy
Planets
Billion
Barren
Roughly
Credulity
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
Temple Grandin
Music
Sports
Weather
Think
Algebra
Others
Type
Minds
Statistics
Bad
Visual
Memorize
Instead
Pictures
Another
Math
Pattern
Patterns
Then
Really
Thinker
When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.
Terence Tao
You
Problem
Fly
Concentrating
Hours
Math
Just
Hard
I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Science
College
About
More
Learn
Math
Going
Wanna
Why
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.
Adam Rodriguez
Life
Important
Real Life
Down
Older
Think
Algebra
Relates
Relation
Once
Bit
Favorite
Out
More
Arithmetic
Checked
Got
How
Real
Gotten
Math
Subject
Lot
Off
Get
Just
Little
Little Bit
Turned
English
Why
When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.
Aileen Lee
History
Physics
Smart
Girl
Took
Classmates
Pushed
Computers
Had
Like
Calculus
None
Boy
Were
Math
Lots
Up
Anything
Us
Really
English
European
Growing
Growing Up
I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.
Alan Shepard
Good
Me
Science
Mind
Think
Physical
Some
Pretty
Pretty Good
Physical Science
More
Good Student
Student
Studying
Obviously
Math
Subjects
Than
Artistic
Interested
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact that campaigns and politicians regularly exploit.
Alex Pareene
Political
Politicians
Nerds
Fact
Journalists
Most
Inept
Math
Campaigns
Them
Exploit
Regularly
Socially
I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.
Alex Sharp
Good
People
Reading
Bad
Math
Very
This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.
Alexa Von Tobel
Financial
Cause
Cancer
Stress
Solution
Like
Know
Answers
Math
Huge
Where
Planning
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
Alonzo Church
Me
School
Princeton
Gave
Otherwise
Way
Pressed
Would
Able
Undergraduate
Go
Continue
Been
Math
Department
Graduate
Graduate School
Paid
Actually
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
Amity Shlaes
Science
Problem
Matter
Parents
Live
Humanities
Earn
Those
More
Students
Emphasis
Schools
Math
Than
Grade
Grades
Graduate
Graduates
Next
Who
Professional
Round
Applications
Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind.
Andre Iguodala
Mind
Favorite
Running
Through
Always
Were
Math
Subject
Numbers
I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.
Andrew Shue
Teacher
Day
First
Before
Months
Never
Students
Had
Excited
Learn
Without
Were
Been
Math
Six
Shortage
Teachers
Eager
Here
Starting
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
Andrew Wiles
Mathematics
Problems
Long
Lost
Our
Way
Find
Drew
Something
Attention
New
Perhaps
Always
Been
Math
New Ones
Lot
Just
Us
Capture
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