Your observation that some politicians conflate "most" with "all" reminded me that in "The New Inquisition" P25, Robert Anton Wilson created a new word - "sombunall", which is short for "some but not all". He claimed that "all" statements or generalisations such"All Englishmen are pompous" or"All Irishmen are drunkards" increased feelings of prejudice and intolerance in a community. He urged us to imagine replacing the above with "Sombunall Englishmen seem pompous to me" or "Sombunall Irishmen seem to me to drink a lot"

A useful word for a more tolerant society?

Don in the early 90s at our little 3 teacher school we had an old fashioned & not young lady teaching first & second class. She refused to give up those coloured rods, declaring they were much better than any of the new ideas being pushed at the time. Two of my kids were lucky enough to have her.

It may have been just luck, but Math always came easily for me.

While physically personally building our first house after the war, & getting it to a liveable stage, my father & I lived in a guesthouse in Bathurst. At the same guesthouse were a couple who were going to be my math & English teachers the next year, my first in high school.

Perhaps knowing & liking the teacher helped, but math as distinct from the arithmetic in primary school just seemed so logical & sensible, I could not understand how anyone could find it hard.

Later when doing the honours necessary to get a scholarship to get into university back then, it got a bit harder. Fortunately we had a great teacher who would put in some extra time after school to get us through. He also had a magic ability to give an example that would clarify what ever one of us was struggling with.

Even having a history teacher who would give us stories of his experiences as a Mosquito path finder pilot in bomber command during the war, never did the same forme with history.