The article content and main thesis is actually very good: yes, we should improve math education, allow people to ask "stupid" questions, think about student's

The article content and main thesis is actually very good: yes, we should improve math education, allow people to ask "stupid" questions, think about student's feelings and use more real-world examples to explain why different mathematical concepts are actually quite important. However, I can't agree with the headline. While a lot of people are not actually bad at math and just need a better education, there's certainly a very large amount of people who are just really bad at abstract reasoning, and they will not be good at math or a lot of other tasks no matter how you teach them. Ability is a combination of uprising and innate traits, and ignoring either one of this components for the sake of the other is a mistake.