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quoted Child's Work by Nancy Wallace

Nancy Wallace: Child's Work (Paperback, 1990, Holt Associates, Holt) 4 stars

What happens when children are allowed to spend their growing years doing what they want …

Mathematics," he wrote, "is a human endeavor — it's what mathematicians do. The stuff that ends up in the textbooks is the result of their work. Similarly, the black lines and dots that musicians read are not themselves music, though we often call them that. Music is what the people are doing.... Both mathematics and music are activities. One does mathematics. One makes music....

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