Richard Hamming on Education
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Richard Hamming, catalogued under education, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Richard Hamming, entry #197052: "Statistics should be taught early so that the concepts are absorbed by the student's flexible, adaptable mind before it is too late."
Attributed to Richard Hamming, entry #58963: "Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past."
6 Quotes by Richard Hamming on Education
"Statistics should be taught early so that the concepts are absorbed by the student's flexible, adaptable mind before it is too late."
"Teachers should prepare the student for the student's future, not for the teacher's past."
"If you expect to continue learning all your life, you will be teaching yourself much of the time. You must learn to learn, especially the difficult topic of mathematics."
"When you take a course in Euclidean geometry is not the teacher putting a... learning program into you? ...You enter the course and cannot do problems; the teacher puts into you a program and at the end of the course you can solve such problems. ...Are you sure you are not merely "programmed" in life by what by chance events happens to you?"
"Since I was trying to teach "style" of thinking in science and engineering, and "style" is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts—once the fundamentals have been learned. How to become a great painter cannot be taught in words... Art teachers usually let the advanced student paint, and then make suggestions... more or less as the points arise in the student's head—which is where learning is supposed to occur!"
"Besides the theory there are a lot of small technical details that must be learned so well that you can recall them almost instantaneously, such as the trigonometric identities... put one part of the identity on one side of a 3 x 5 card and the other part on the other side. Using these flash cards you can, in the odd moments of your daily life, learn the mechanical parts of the course. ...for this kind of low-level material many short learning sessions are much more efficient than a few long, intense ones; but this is not necessarily true for larger ideas. ...most students will not use such trivial devices as flash cards; it seems to be beneath their dignity. They suffer accordingly."