>We 'make' children learn how to do fundamental mathematics and it doesn't seem do them harm Ask adults on the street what is 6 * 9 and most will fail to answe

>We 'make' children learn how to do fundamental mathematics and it doesn't seem do them harm Ask adults on the street what is 6 * 9 and most will fail to answer correctly. Probe further and most will apologise and announce with a smile that they were never much good at math at school. This is fossil evidence of the harm caused by early coercion in the area of arithmetic.