Thanks for that link. The discussion and comments at the end are fascinating. Sad that STEM is getting dumbed down along with general education. I've been self

Thanks for that link. The discussion and comments at the end are fascinating. Sad that STEM is getting dumbed down along with general education. I've been self-learning analysis and differential geometry for a while now, and feel that the way math is taught at the secondary and post-seconardy level -- and just the way the framing of the subject -- does actual damage to our chances of learning it. What I mean is, a lot of so-called higher-level or advanced math is concerned with unifying generalities. Starting with the most limited, simplest instance of sets -- integers -- makes each iteration into more general terrain seem 'difficult'. Whereas, if math education started with the abstract generality (topologies and abstract algebra), any particular constriction to a domain (complex, reals, functions, etc.) wouldn't seem isolated or unique. Anyway, thanks for the reference!