I remember one particular turning point for me, I think about in 9th grade, where I asked my math teacher to go into more detail about how the quadratic equatio

I remember one particular turning point for me, I think about in 9th grade, where I asked my math teacher to go into more detail about how the quadratic equation was discovered and what the purpose for each part was. She seemed to have no idea why anyone would want (let alone need) to know that and doubled down on the advice to "just memorize it". I went a bit further in math afterward so I could at least grasp at the essentials of calculus, but that one moment took a lot of the wind out of my sails.