A central problem in teaching mathematics is to communicate a reasonable sense of taste-meaning often when to, or not to, generalize, abstract, or extend something you have just done. (Richard Hamming)

A central problem in teaching mathematics is to communicate a reasonable sense of taste-meaning often when to, or not to, generalize, abstract, or extend something you have just done.

Richard Hamming

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