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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4745872, member: 111237&quot;]While I agree that it seems to be men, probably older men, who are most interested in numismatics, I do not think it is because of any conditioning. At least this does not seem to be the case in my experience. Nobody, be they male or female, in my life is interested in it or really interested in history either and to me these two subject are closely related. My daughter certainly has never been conditioned to like a certain thing because she is female and, being my daughter, I certainly sought to interest her in my passions, but she has little to no interest. Same goes for my wife, a mathematician by education and trade, nor my mother, sister or father and most of my friends for that matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not feel there is a need to target people to try to get them interested either although I have at times without success.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first started teaching history I observed a history class being taught by a woman who played a lot of games in class. She told me on a break she did this because history is boring and you need to make it interesting. I was a bit amazed that a person who taught history would describe it as boring since I found it inherently interesting. She had a point though...many people do find it boring so to teach it you might need to try to hold their attention just to get them to learn what they need to learn to pass the class. However if they just don&#039;t like it, then I understand and while I love to see a young person interested in history, I understand it&#039;s not for everyone, or most.</p><p><br /></p><p>Otherwise I do not think there is anything standing in the way for anyone regardless of gender or race when it comes to learning about any subject. I just think that a lot of people are just not interested in it. My daughter is interested in art and design, but not in the art of the coin. My wife is interested in literature, art and mathematics, but is less than inspired by the art and history of currency although she likes the coins I make. Nothing I do or say will probably change this fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>I welcome anyone with this passion but I don&#039;t feel the need to try to attract anyone to it. If they like what they see, they will be welcomed but we are all individuals and we like what we like. As a teacher I try to spark a love of history and hope that even if, as young people, they do not see it as interesting, maybe later in life they will come back to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think both history and numismatics appeals most to more mature people. I know when I was young I didn&#039;t care one wit about coins and only scraped the surface of history. As I grew older I became more and more interested in history and discovered numismatics on my own, nobody led me to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also I think it is something that has never really attracted a lot of people to delve deeply into it in the first place. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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