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Jill Adler Quotes

born 1951 South Africa

Jill Adler (born 31 January 1951 in Johannesburg) is a South African Professor of Mathematics education at the University of the Witwatersrand and the President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (2017–2020).

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I always loved mathematics, and was inspired by particular teachers in both primary and secondary schools, and so I went to University to study mathematics.

You have to be vulnerable. You have to recognize you don't know the answers. Good ideas can come from anywhere

Once you get a big role, that's the starting line, not the finishing line. So it's really, how do you understand what the need is from your organization and in society?

because then you don’t make assumptions, you don’t take diversity views for granted.

I gave “extra mathematics lessons” while I was doing my degree and enjoyed this (as well as earning quite well from it) and so went on from a B Sc to do my professional teaching diploma.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jill Adler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.