> this beauty of maths was missing from schools and yet amazing things could be shown with even primary school mathematical ability

This.

Most people think that math is about arithmetic and memorization, which couldn't be further from the truth. But can you blame them since the only math teaching they received as kids was about arithmetic and memorization?

It would be interesting how much science will move forward if we had one generation of kids who grow up learning about the more "beautiful" aspects of math and end up interested in it...