Lament over math?

My brother Matt became a teacher less than a year ago. Since he was replacing someone abruptly, he got a mix of advanced and remedial classes. He teaches math, and I expected that he would find that teaching high school kids would be hard, as they don't necessarily want to learn. In college, everyone you tutor or talk with about the education you are getting is paying to be there. Well, at least someone is paying. In high school, I'm sure that the kids there could think of many other things to do, and that does not make learning easy on either the teacher or the student.

I saw an interesting paper written about how very sad our mathmatical education process is, and I thought I'd share. I'm probably going to point Matt to it, so I'm also kind of remembering it for later. Thanks metafilter!

http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf