I even had high school math *teachers* who got excited when I was willing to tutor geometry because they thought they weren't capable of answering the students questions. Sorry for the ramble… it just always confounded me wondering how this mindset developed
I couldn't beg a "why" out of a teacher in school. They were focused on the processes and the "whats." A proof without a why is like bread without a proof. Maybe people should first learn to break proofs. It seems most, if not all, of the various logic classes I've taken started with logical flaws before construction... actually maybe logic should preceed mathematical proofs.
