Education serves many purposes. In much of my writing, I combine these purposes into the following short statement:
I believe that the overall and unifying goal of learning (via a lifetime of informal and formal education) is to develop and maintain cognitive, moral, physical, and spiritual knowledge and skills that help learners to solve or in other ways to cope with the problems they encounter.
Since you are reading this short article, I assume that you are involved with and/or interested in math education. Can you name some of the people who have made important contributions to this area?
This Information Age Education Blog entry names two of my favorites, George Polya and Seymour Papert.
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” (Henry Louis “H.L.” Mencken; American journalist, essayist, editor; 1880-1956.)
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” (Albert Einstein; German-born theoretical physicist and 1921 Nobel Prize winner; 1879-1955.)
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” (Attributed to Benjamin Franklin; one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, author, printer, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat; 1706-1790).
Every once in a while I encounter a news item about personal finances of people in the United States. This IAE Blog entry briefly discusses two recent examples.
I have recently thoroughly revised and updated my IAE-pedia document, Free Math Software (Moursund, 7/15/2016). This site includes my current philosophy of education that emphasizes current and future roles of computers.
My Philosophy of Education
