As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.
Maryam MirzakhaniRead
I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.
Interpretation
Mathematics is often undervalued by students who don't fully engage with it.
Maryam Mirzakhani emphasizes the importance of giving mathematics a fair chance, suggesting that while it may not be necessary for everyone to become a mathematician, many students miss out on its value due to a lack of effort or interest. Her words encourage a more open and engaged approach to learning mathematics.
In practice
A teacher could use this quote when encouraging students to participate more in math class.
As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.
In particular, I am interested in understanding hyperbolic surfaces.
I did poorly in math for a couple of years in middle school; I was just not interested in thinking about it.
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.
We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.
Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an adult can have a kind of mission. He can be an inspiration for the child's actions, a kind of open book wherein a child can learn how to direct his own movements. But an adult, if he is to afford proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.
The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who donβt have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.
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