The difference may be a social one. What kind of immersion would cause someone to learn math? I’d guess a much more social immersion, where everyone in the subject’s peer group are math phds, they don’t outright reject the subject, and they often talk about math in the subject’s presence. It seems likely this person would learn math quickly, and without any traumatizing experiences.
I wonder if it would be possible to make an educational system with 1 month immersion (per year) in each subject. Like, one month you are only allowed to discuss math, read books about math, the walls are covered by pictures of mathematical theorems, etc. The next month you only paint and observe paintings. (Would be a bit cult-like, but given that schools already resemble prisons, this would not necessarily make them worse.)
The difference may be a social one. What kind of immersion would cause someone to learn math? I’d guess a much more social immersion, where everyone in the subject’s peer group are math phds, they don’t outright reject the subject, and they often talk about math in the subject’s presence. It seems likely this person would learn math quickly, and without any traumatizing experiences.
I wonder if it would be possible to make an educational system with 1 month immersion (per year) in each subject. Like, one month you are only allowed to discuss math, read books about math, the walls are covered by pictures of mathematical theorems, etc. The next month you only paint and observe paintings. (Would be a bit cult-like, but given that schools already resemble prisons, this would not necessarily make them worse.)
This sounds interesting, and I’d like to see it tried.