The problem with teaching ODEs is that some people just are not motivated to learn that stuff. Why would a business man need to know differential equations? I

The problem with teaching ODEs is that some people just are not motivated to learn that stuff. Why would a business man need to know differential equations? I bet this country would be a lot better off teaching Econ 101 to every student graduating than teaching differential equations, or even Calculus. Who needs to know Calc? Math, Science, and Engineering majors. Some business and finance majors, but not all. That is not the majority of people in college must less the country. Yet everyone should understand the country's economy a bit better. I have always found a lot of smart people do not understand the actual demographics of the country because they only see the people around them, who are in fact also smart people. Realize that the country is largely made up of people who have never gotten closer to high math than what they see on the blackboards in movies like Good Will Hunting, and could care less. Also consider most education majors never are required to get past Calc 1, who would teach it? I'm all for offering it, I took Calc in high school and I know other engineers who took ODEs in high school, but requiring any more than Calc 1 in high school makes no sense to me.