I should have been more specific! I was referring to early or basic schooling education: years 1 to 13 in my country. These are the formative years and are the most important for everybody universally. The quality of this education is paramount.
Higher-education wasn’t even on my mind! I’d call that quantity of education for the purposes of this discussion.
I couldn’t tell you why, sure it’s quite possible their teachers just weren’t passionate enough, or their class rooms small enough.
This is what I meant by “quality”, though I’d add the expertise of their teachers. Anecdotally, I often suspect that kids find maths hard because their teacher doesn’t understand the maths they’re teaching.
It’s also possible they just don’t value ‘not being stupid’ enough to even try.
Some people I know wear their ignorance as a badge, I just don’t get it. I assume there was some fundamental lesson not learned very early on, but can’t even guess what that lesson was.
I should have been more specific! I was referring to early or basic schooling education: years 1 to 13 in my country. These are the formative years and are the most important for everybody universally. The quality of this education is paramount.
Higher-education wasn’t even on my mind! I’d call that quantity of education for the purposes of this discussion.
This is what I meant by “quality”, though I’d add the expertise of their teachers. Anecdotally, I often suspect that kids find maths hard because their teacher doesn’t understand the maths they’re teaching.
Some people I know wear their ignorance as a badge, I just don’t get it. I assume there was some fundamental lesson not learned very early on, but can’t even guess what that lesson was.