Your math teacher sounds like a bad teacher. My calc teacher is very much the same, but he heavily focuses on being able to teach us how to learn on our own (i.

Your math teacher sounds like a bad teacher. My calc teacher is very much the same, but he heavily focuses on being able to teach us how to learn on our own (i.e. looking up new concepts on khanacademy/other resources, looking for practical applications to theorems we learn, etc.)