Henk4U2
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My feelings are that it is not only the subject, but (also) who teaches it.
My first year in highschool we got a new dean, who was a PhD in math. And he was so kind as to give us a tast of his genius. Students were struggling to survive yet another hour. Grades were low.
Next year we got a lady who not (yet) had her masters. And looked if she was on a break from grooming her pony. When we stumbled on a certain subject she told us “you must have had that in your first year, why dont you remember?”. Well eh, the dean… So she gave us a crash course and in doing so, wiped away in a few weeks the primal fear for math our dean had gifted us a year long.
I still hate math. But sometimes you just need it.