I’m not saying they need to make a career out of it; instilling rewards for kids without a sense of effort required to get them is bad parenting.

And let’s agree to disagree that some aren’t good at it “to not fault of their own”. The notion that some are born capable of STEM and others aren’t is asinine. Practice, practice, practice.

Learning to catch and throw a ball is teaching yourself the physical act of calculus. Many art pieces can be mathematically broken down into forms such as the Fibonacci sequence. I say that you’re pidgeonholing STEM into some rigid, uncreative stereotype when it would be a damn shame to let an aspiring artist go about their life without at least some mathematics.