I hated math... this propaganda learning, like lyrics of logics, you where forced to recitate. But i loved game-designing, and that desire got me through my first year on university - and then one day i realized that math is just a hammer, a fascinating paintbrush and i had walls full of nails.

I will never become a toolsmith, but forcing people is bad- every creature has intrinsic motivation for something, you need to hack that motivation, and piggyback the thirst for knowledge to that.