A Mathematician’s Lament, by Paul Lockhart, is a mind revolving eye-opening piece on Lockhart’s extreme, yet makes logic, views on the mathematics education and curriculum in our educational system. An essay full of remarkable and strangely empowering critique about our mathematic education succeeds at motivating any future teachers to strive to make our math education curriculum better. This article critiques how we view mathematics as a culture, how teachers are “teaching” it (or not teaching it), why students are struggling and rejecting it, how parents in this society perceive it, and how testing students does not provide sufficient evidence that learning has taken place. This piece by Lockhart reinspires anyone (me in particular) and makes us realize that in fact math is an art like no other, and to have effective teachers, we need a greater understanding of the subject beyond the formulaic presentations we encounter from elementary to post high school education. Math is not about rules, it's not about arithmetic, it's not about notation. Math is about the search for beauty. The piece begins by a musician waking up from a terrible nightmare, where music education has been made mandatory both for music people and non-music people. "We are helping our students become more competitive in an increasingly sound-filled world. Educators, school systems, and the state are put in charge of this vital project. Studies are commissioned, committees are formed, and decisions are made-- all without the advice or participation of a single working musician or composer.” Then, a second nightmare occurs, but this time to a painter. It is same scenario with similar circumstances of extremities. Both nightmares serve to fulfill a comparison with today’s mathematics’ curriculums. Lockhart believes our mathematics education to be exactly like those nightmares; a world with a