I've always thought that people must be turned off from maths by a lack of self-confidence and poor teaching.

It might look complicated if you've never seen it before but everything we do is literally a sequence of the most retardedly simple, intuitively obvious steps. If something seems hard then you've just not been taught what the little baby steps are properly. I think people seem to think instead that there is some kind of magic ability of insight which they lack, which is the opposite of the truth.

I am almost definitely wrong about this, but hey, you can't fault me for not being egalitarian.