You wish that you did not have to introduce the metric system and metric prefixes in science courses for non-majors, but here at Tumbleweed State you have to.

You wish that you did not have to introduce the metric system and metric prefixes in science courses for non-majors, but here at Tumbleweed State you have to. You also can't rely on the kids having basic facility with algebra. Some are stupid, but others are undereducated; we are mopping up after the poor highschool. These are the kids that plump for allied health professions. Also: we seem to be rolling back the Enlightenment: Enlightenment: "man's emergence from self-incurred immaturity"