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From: elkan@cornell.UUCP (Charles Elkan)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: learning calculus
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 14:00:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 14:00:12 1985
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	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.