>not the smart people. Sometimes it is smart to embrace this. Find a grade school student struggling with math, tell them it is easy, and they'll think themse

>not the smart people. Sometimes it is smart to embrace this. Find a grade school student struggling with math, tell them it is easy, and they'll think themselves a failure. Instead, I find it better to tell them that math can be easy or hard, and it depends upon how one is taught. Let the student know the failure to understand math isn't due to something inherent in them, but something that can be changed. (I am assuming a student who tries or has tried in the past, if they don't try at all, that takes a different approach). Math, as taught in school, is hard.