I also believe that maths and STEM is something that all people do. Well, maybe not all, but at least not just a few geniuses. For that matter, I believe the pr

I also believe that maths and STEM is something that all people do. Well, maybe not all, but at least not just a few geniuses. For that matter, I believe the progressives prescribed the wrong solution. The ordinary people, those who are are not the top X% in schools, need the push from their teachers, need the challenges in course work to push themselves to truly learn, and need a certain repetitiveness to truly grasp the fundamental concepts and skills. How do I know that? I was one of such students. I made it because my teachers pushed me. They used carefully designed homework to show me that I didn't really have the deep understanding of math as I thought. They used homework to show me that my understanding of Newton physics was inadequate. They used midterms to show me that I didn't really intuitively grasp algorithm analysis (I didn't know how to rigorously and succinctly argue that two pivots and one pivot are really the same in quicksort). I grew to enjoy STEM and CS precisely because I was lucky to have tough yet encouraging schools. Dumbing down courses would have taken away the push I needed, and I would likely have a lot more failures in my life.