Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!elkan From: elkan@cornell.UUCP (Charles Elkan) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: learning calculus Message-ID: <2914@cornell.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 14:00:12 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.2914 Posted: Fri Jul 5 14:00:12 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 04:58:47 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 16 Surely the real problem is that elementary calculus has to be taught at an accelerated pace in college. Only in the US is it possible to graduate from high school and study science or engineering at university without knowing any calculus. To quote C.P. Snow : [...] although your college education is wonderful and can do everything which you ask it to do, your elementary and high-school education in certain respects leaves a great deal to be desired. [...] I have been in high schools where I felt it would be a good idea if the children sometimes were taught something. Calculus, perhaps ? - Charles Elkan, not a US high school graduate.