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One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.

Quote Author: Leon Henkin

	Leon Henkin
	Leon Henkin (19 April 1921 - 1 November 2006) was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for the "Henkin Completeness Proof": his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic. Read More

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One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed. This gives students the idea that there is a book somewhere with all the right answers to all of the interesting questions, and that teachers know those answers. And if one could get hold of the book, one would have everything settled. That's so unlike the true nature of mathematics.