A good teacher can make a great difference but as you say, the pupil needs some motivation - some reason to want to learn it. I took exactly one class of 2nd y

A good teacher can make a great difference but as you say, the pupil needs some motivation - some reason to want to learn it. I took exactly one class of 2nd year physics and couldn't see the point of it. I walked out, quit physics altogether and came back the following year to do CS.