It may be that people successfully learn something entirely new to them from studying core principles not thanks to such an approach, but despite it. Some would say the approach unnecessarily limits the amount of people who would otherwise easily grasp the topic.

Math is usually introduced by way of examples (counting apples and such), and it could be that using those more would make more complicated topics more accessible.

https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician'...