Comment Re:Ease of understanding & teaching. (Score 1) 205
I think you're absolutely right about the ease of mathematics. If you're learning from someone who genuinely understand how and why it works, and wants to convey that understanding to his students, undergraduate subjects seem completely intuitive and you wonder how anyone could ever consider it hard. More rarely, if you have a really great textbook, you can experience the same thing.
And there really do exist good teachers of mathematics - plenty of them, actually. I've had the privilege to learn from some at uni. But you pretty much have to pick a college with the quality of the teachers in mind, and resign yourself to everything else (like the administration that wants the students dead, for example).
Of course, this just makes it more painful when you have the professors who don't know their subject or don't know how to teach it, because you're sitting there wishing you could jump up and say "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE, DAMMIT!"
And there really do exist good teachers of mathematics - plenty of them, actually. I've had the privilege to learn from some at uni. But you pretty much have to pick a college with the quality of the teachers in mind, and resign yourself to everything else (like the administration that wants the students dead, for example).
Of course, this just makes it more painful when you have the professors who don't know their subject or don't know how to teach it, because you're sitting there wishing you could jump up and say "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE, DAMMIT!"
