>stack up prerequisite knowledge before they're even allowed to touch it The way you phrased this reminded me of A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart[0]

>stack up prerequisite knowledge before they're even allowed to touch it The way you phrased this reminded me of A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart[0] [0] https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....