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Educational technique needs a philosophy, which is a matter of faith rather than of science.

— Hans Freudenthal Hans Freudenthal (1977)

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Horizontal mathematising leads from the world of life to the world of symbols.

Revisiting Mathematics Education (1991)

Angles are measured by arcs, such that 360° and 2π correspond to each other.

Mathematics as an Educational Task (1973)

Vertical mathematising is the most likely part of the learning process for the bonds with reality to be loosened and eventually cut.

Revisiting Mathematics Education (1991)

No scientist is as model minded as is the statistician; in no other branch of science is the word model as often and consciously used as in statistics.

The Concept and the Role of the Model in Mathematics and Natural and Social Sciences (1961)

Learners should be allowed to find their own levels and explore the paths leading there with as much and as little guidance as each particular case requires.

Didactical Phenomenology of Mathematical Structures (1983)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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