Danica McKellar Quotes

There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

To teach is to learn twice.

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.