It maybe "idealistic" but I would hardly call it "hubris". My undergrad was in a non-technical area and so I never had to take calc in undergrad. Having later

It maybe "idealistic" but I would hardly call it "hubris". My undergrad was in a non-technical area and so I never had to take calc in undergrad. Having later learned it to solve problems, it has become clear to me that it would be preferable if everyone with a college degree knew calc. I was, in retrospect, wrong to have tried to avoid it. I'm well aware we don't live in that world, unfortunately many people with a college degree also don't know write effectively, or perform critical analysis on texts, things I also thing should be part of being college educated. > Knowing basic accounting, being able to fix things around the house, being pleasant to work with, etc are far more important. I'm not sure how knowing calculus reduces these things.