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While I would read this book just to see what ideas this guy has, the same thing can be said about any subject. I dislike history and language because I am a visual thinker- I remember pictures before anything else. The only difference is as children we are immersed in our language and events, so language and history are relatively easy subjects to teach. Mathematics is more difficult to demonstrate, especially when you start off with the counting, adding, multiplying, dividing, subtracting, etcetera, because we do not think it as often as speaking a language or reflecting upon memories. If schools were to start off with something like basic geometry, get the kids interested in pictures, shapes, and then relate it to the numerical part, then it would be interesting. All you need are good, wacky cartoons demonstrating the basic ideas of math (think Donald Duck in Math-Magic Land) and you will have the kids' attention. Yet, when I was a child, things like School House Rock annoyed me without end.
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