insane religious
Yeah, it just sounded like that, I know not all (e.g.) Catholics are bible thumping nutters, some of them are
mass breeding scum that we burn on Guy Fawkes totally normal, sane people.
Tbh, I go to a secular school and we did get an assembly from a very funny but apparently selectively prudish teacher, who I admired quite a bit. It was on porn, she did all the stuff about objectifying women, taking advantage of them, giving men the wrong ideas about sex, promoting rape culture, how its smellier and hairier in real life, blah, etc, all the usual correct and necessary stuff someone should definitely tell boys especially ones that go to a non-mixed school.
Though at one point she described it as totally inexcusable, immoral and disgusting, even if it wasn't bad for all the reasons she discussed (which applies to some of it. Because, the girls in porn are "always somebody's daughter". And proceeded to draw links between it and 16 hour a day gamers.
So yeah, I know that even in the sanest, most liberal places and even minds, bastions of bigotry can exist, and vice versa.
I hated maths in school too. I still don't like it, admittedly, but I hate it less now that I can learn about numbers in a less irritating format.
It's like, lots of people dislike/are bad at maths. You'd think alarm bells would be ringing to change the way it's taught but nooooooo, we must infuse the children with bullshit.
As a competent mathematican, who likes maths and can get it most ways its taught, I think change is really necessary.
I mean, even the best teachers sometimes just don't
tell kids the right way of doing stuff - there are certain areas it's assumed you get by trial and error or by intuiting it. So many people didn't understand rotation about a point till I just told them the two step method. And the maths teachers, when people asked why one of the students had to tell half the year how to do something, just thought they all forgot. We covered the subject and all, but they omitted the simple, easy, intuitive method - I don't know how, but it was collective and unplanned. Just one of those things maths people got and non maths people didn't.
I think that most things could, with a little effort, be taught to "non maths people", and they'd get it and wouldn't find it impossible
, and we'd be a step closer to becoming the master race. We just need more emphasis on understanding what has been taught. But no. And thus the ostracism of maths remains, mathematicians are nerds, and people laugh at you when you tell them maths is beautiful.
I guess maths teachers aren't always good explainers.