基本图书信息在这里。
- P2
Politicians and others have placed great emphasis on standardized test scores for evaluating and improving schools, largely, I suppose, because they seem to be a cheap and “objective” way to improve education. They also provide large profits to publishers of standardized tests. I believe that such tests do more harm than good and should be forbidden in our schools. They are designed to reward students who “think” the same way the test-maker thinks.
作者的重点批判在当下中国非常适用。很多老师甚至主动强调这一点，这还算是教育吗？之所以应试教育饱受批评，就是这些试题太垃圾了。
- P3
there was no use for the arithmetic if you couldn’t use it to solve real problems.
现在的几乎所有的应用题，都是虚假的，在我看来，这比完全抛弃应用题还叫人难受。另外值得一提的是，中学课本里每个章节前都有个“引子”，这些引子也假的很。
- P5
I think of mathematics as a way to avoid work, or a way to achieve something that could not be achieved without themathematics and therefore something beautiful, useful, and worth learning. School textbooks seem designed to show children that mathematics is a way to make work where none is necessary, thus discouraging them from enjoying or studying mathematics. Apparently, we must also discourage them from thinking or avoiding unnecessary work.
这点和前面的“虚假”的应用题一脉相承。我们缺少“真正”的问题，真正需要数学来解决的问题。如果问题本身就没意思，那谁还愿意去学那些解决之道呢？这同时，还黑了一把数学家，他们居然那么无聊，发明那一大堆乱七八糟的没用东西。
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P7
作者建议找一些数学游戏（比如Nim游戏）来刺激学生做运算。游戏有趣味性，所以即使其中需要做运算，孩子也不反感，而且可能根本没意识到老师在训练他们的运算能力。 -
P7
To me, one of the important goals of teaching mathematics should be to get students to discuss problems with friends and families.
- P26
Perhaps the most glaring proof that American schools are not doing a sufficiently good job of educating students is the number of prominent people who seem unable to distinguish between cause and effect in education. A high score on a particular multiple-choice test does not imply the individual has a good education or is particularly smart.
从这点来看，中国教育也是失败的。另外，又黑了一把选择题。有选择题的试卷都很差劲。
- P35
I reread many of the arguments attributed to Socrates by Plato and others and decided that he had been behaving more like a lawyer than a teacher and that I had done the same thing with the little girl.
这个观点蛮新颖的。哪天找时间自己读一读。
- P37
Well, I have taught all grades from first through twelfth as well as college and graduate courses in mathematics and education and what I have found is that if I start by trying to discuss or solve the students’ social problems they think of me as a bad joke. But, if I start by trying to help them learn some substantial and useful content, and demonstrate in the process that I actually know something and respect them enough to share, they will respect me and often come to me for help with nonacademic matters.
作者的这个经历蛮有意思的。之前看到一些书上说，先和学生做（生活上的）朋友，这有助于专业教学。作者的经历却相反。教育真是需要“对症下药”啊，难难难！
- P45
作者引用了庄子的一句话：Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
不知道对应的中文是啥。