The Brooklyn Math Tutors

A focus on results can quickly suck the fun out of learning, which, ironically, lowers the results.

"If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out."- Richard Feynman

The enemy of curiousity is fear and shame. What can we do to encourage our kids to keep asking questions?

"No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives." - Neil deGrass Tyson

Are your kids aiming too high academically? Or too low?

"For most of us, the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed." - Sir Ken Robinson

What can we do as parents to help our kids get to know themselves?

"Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge." - John Taylor Gatto

What unique thing(s) have you discovered about yourself *after* you finished school?

"One Size Does Not Fit All Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school. Many of them didn’t really discover what they could do—and who they really were—until they’d left school and recovered from their education." - Sir Ken Robinson

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Outside of school, mathematics is a subject that requires deep thinking, not fast thinking.

Yet schools set time limits for tests and rush kids to complete their calculations faster than their peers. No wonder so many kids grow to hate it!

"mathematics, more than other subjects, has been damaged by the idea that to be good at the subject you need to be fast." - Jo Boaler

What do you remember about your favorite teachers?

"Students don't need a perfect teacher. Students need a happy teacher, who's gonna make them excited to come to school and grow a love for learning." - Richard Feynman

Do you find that science education help students understand the relevance of science in their every day life?

What conditions helped you become the successful person that you now are? Are these easy or difficult to replicate?

"You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish." - Sir Ken Robinson

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Growth Mindset relies on the idea that "mistakes" are just steps toward mastery.

"If we believe that we can learn, and that mistakes are valuable, our brains grow to a greater extent when we make a mistake." - Jo Boaler

How big can a class get before students no longer have a meaningful relationship with their teacher?

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Do children in the modern world have too much responsibility.. or too little?

"Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive." - John Taylor Gatto