Es difícil enseñar a la gente lo que no están dispuestos a aprender.

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#1

Odd that ‘gente’ is treated as plural here. Is this a mistake in the translation?

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#2

Es difícil enseñar a la gente lo que (ellos) no están dispuestos a aprender.

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#3

I am correct in thinking you’re saying that the original sentence is grammatically incorrect but some native speakers sometimes treat the word as plural?

I’ll mention that there is a concordancia section (section 4.7) in the RAE which describes when gente should be treated as singular and plural. It’s quite a long section so it can, apparently, be quite tricky to get right.