“What they teach in school, I like to call, “math,” as opposed to mathematics. Mathematics is one of the great jewels of achievement of the human mind. Math is a bunch of boring stuff that you make kids do with pencils and square papers and filling in numbers. There is no relation.”
Papert, S.(2009) in Squeakers DVD (video available online). Accessed at http://squeakland.org/resources/audioVisual/#cat547. February 8, 2012.