Quotes About Multiplication Tables

#1. In primary school, there are kids who learn their conjugations and their multiplication tables. Me, I learned something more useful: the strong get off on walking all over other people, and wiping their feet while they're at it, like you would on a doormat.

Marie Sabine Roger

#2. In moments of crisis, all you gotta do is review your multiplication tables, and it'll all blow over!

Andrea Camilleri

#3. Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which is memorization of spelling patterns. In doing so, they ensure that children will neither be able to read nor calculate.

Greg Perry

#4. Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

Susan Orlean

#5. Some things never change. Not the ABC's, not the multiplication tables, not God!

Billy Graham

#6. Her calculations were sometimes a little fuzzy, for the same reason that her checkbook sometimes did not balance; Becky Vesey (as she had been known as a child) had never really mastered the multiplication tables and she was inclined to confuse sevens with nines.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them ... we don't absorb multiplication tables.

William Alexander Percy

#8. I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.

Sara Dormon

#9. It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

James A. Garfield

#11. Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

David Hilbert

#12. Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don't really in fact know it?

Zhuangzi

#13. I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

Peta Wilson

#14. When people count me out, that gets me motivated.

Ed Belfour

#15. We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

Henry Ford

#16. The two major ways people fail financially: 1) Spend when they should save. 2) Save when they should invest.

Orrin Woodward

#17. There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Anton Chekhov

#18. But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

George Saintsbury

#19. Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Calvin Coolidge

#20. A problem shared is attention gained.

Pippa Evans

#21. A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Walter Isaacson