[O]ur present system of mathematics education is... a mechanism for... destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making.

— Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament (2008)

Source: https://profkeithdevlin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lockhartslament.pdf

Printed in Devlin's Angle column and MAA Online (2009).

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