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Cambridge University

The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest and greatest universities in Great Britain. It was founded in about 1209 by teachers and students who left Oxford and the University of Oxford after constant fighting with townspeople. It’s interesting to note that in the early centuries students at Cambridge University were taught in Latin. Also, it’s known that until the 19th century women were not allowed to study ay Cambridge University.

Are the exams the best way to test student’s intelligence?

It is well-known fact that nowadays our society is based on testing everyone and everything to identify intelligence, abilities, skills…

What Do You Think about Mathematics?

I find that at school the children like the teachers and not the subjects. A short time ago I delivered a lecture to would-be students of an engineering college. There were about five hundred in all. I asked them who liked mathematics and got two hundred raised hands. Then I asked them who were particularly fond of their math teacher, and again I got 150 to 200 positive responses. But when I asked them how many liked mathematics but did not like their mathematics teacher, I got four hands out of 200 lovers of mathematics!

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