A. J. Meir

Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Auburn University

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Look Forward, not Back.

Posted by ajm on October 6, 2012
Posted in: Musings.

In all we do, we need to look forward, plan for the future, have a vision and know where we are going.

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Wayne Gretzky

“Teachers should prepare the student for the student’s future, not for the teachers past.”

“It seems to me the difficulty of knowing the future does not absolve the teacher from seriously trying to help the student to be prepared for it when it comes.”

Richard W. Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering:
Learning to Learn
, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1997.

We must look to the future even though it is hard to predict

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

Yogi Berra

since

“If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.”

Yogi Berra

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