There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

In any case, do you really think kids even want something that is relevant to their daily lives? You think something practical like compound interest is going to get them excited? People enjoy fantasy, and that is just what mathematics can provide - a relief from daily life, an anodyne to the practical workaday world.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope is there for their students?