[lordnacho]

Because one way to appreciate beauty is to show others. One of my math teachers in school had no kids, lived frugally. He could have retired a long time before I ran into him.

Instead, he gave me extra classes and put me on the math team. He spent lots of his own time to show me the interesting bits while also making sure I wouldn't get anything less than the top mark on the exams.

You're right though. It's not enough to rely on passionate people, there's not enough of them. I mean I like math too, and I'm not gonna be a teacher. You can't even send your own kids to school on a teacher's salary.

[monk_e_boy]

No teacher has time to do that. The workload is insane. Work from 7:30 to 3:30 in school. Then after school stuff with some kids for an hour, then staff meetings and a cup of tea (maybe a shit if you've got time). Commute home. 6pm cook and eat dinner. Bath kids, put to bed. 8pm plan lessons for next day, try to find some beauty in maths that works for the A* kids and the F kids and is in the curriculum.

Yeah. That's not happening often. Schools are broken.