I agree completely. When I was taking an A-level course (UK) in Pure Maths (circa 1970) I had the hardest time working out why I should care about calculus at a

I agree completely. When I was taking an A-level course (UK) in Pure Maths (circa 1970) I had the hardest time working out why I should care about calculus at all, except to hopefully pass an exam (which I did, with the lowest possible grade). If I had taken the Applied Maths course, which applied maths to physics, I'm sure I would have done much better than I did, but I couldn't because of timetabling constraints with my other two A-level subjects.