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The Mathematician's Lament
The way we teach math is wrong. Students are taught to memorize formulas instead of taught formulas to go in their toolbox to solve problems. And because K through 12 is all memorization and repetition, students then spend undergrad unlearning all the damage that's been done. Only when they're in upper division courses or graduate school do they get to do actual math.
If we taught music or art like we taught math, there would be fewer artists or musicians.