I see your point, and perhaps some of the reason is that I enjoy applied mathematics more than some of the more general/theoretical stuff. That said, I don't t

I see your point, and perhaps some of the reason is that I enjoy applied mathematics more than some of the more general/theoretical stuff. That said, I don't think what I said (or at least what I meant) was unfair; IF maths could have been presented more like this I might have been more interested (and thus learned better/more). Perhaps I just had more of the "dry" maths teachers, and my high school maths teacher was just a bully, so anything he had to say/teach was pretty much starting on a bad foot.