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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair,

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didnt even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. – Carl Gustav Jung

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