My 10-year-old daughter was rolled in a ball crying yesterday, because of her maths homework. Maths class should not make people feel this way.
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To change this lamentable situation materially would require vast investments in infrastructure, guided by expertise that is in such short supply as to be practically unavailable. Deciding to make great teachers is not unlike deciding to make world-class fighter aircraft.
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This is my sixth year as private mentor to a girl whose mathematical talent is so dazzlingly extraordinary that it still takes my breath away every time I visit her. Math class at school has long seemed to her utterly pointless and stupid. She gave up on it altogether, ages ago.
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