1 - World needs world class mathematicians to continue to evolve science for the betterment of humanity.
2 - Those world class mathematicians need to get started sooner in life to learn most of whats out there so they can work on extending the reach of collective human knowledge on Math. So, these mathematicians better get to calculus before they graduate high school.
3 - I wish there were two courses like "math for bright kids" and "math for not-so-bright kids". Since you feel you didnt need to learn calculus and, assuming you felt the same way when you were in school, you would be taking "math for not-so-bright kids" .. AND THAT would not have been acceptable to your parents back then.
4 - I wish teacher had magical powers to know who would go on to be a world class mathematicians but i dont think we are there yet but I feel if there are enough mathematicians in the world, we may get there some day. Case in point - Einstein did bad in school and showed his brilliance relatively late in life.
In any case - lets stop the bickering because you had to study little bit more than what you are comfortable with, for the sake of overall evolution. Theres more good than bad here.
2 - Those world class mathematicians need to get started sooner in life to learn most of whats out there so they can work on extending the reach of collective human knowledge on Math. So, these mathematicians better get to calculus before they graduate high school.
3 - I wish there were two courses like "math for bright kids" and "math for not-so-bright kids". Since you feel you didnt need to learn calculus and, assuming you felt the same way when you were in school, you would be taking "math for not-so-bright kids" .. AND THAT would not have been acceptable to your parents back then.
4 - I wish teacher had magical powers to know who would go on to be a world class mathematicians but i dont think we are there yet but I feel if there are enough mathematicians in the world, we may get there some day. Case in point - Einstein did bad in school and showed his brilliance relatively late in life.
In any case - lets stop the bickering because you had to study little bit more than what you are comfortable with, for the sake of overall evolution. Theres more good than bad here.