From the article: > There are two counter-arguments. The first is that higher mathematics is central to a serious higher education. [snip] It is both unreasona

From the article: > There are two counter-arguments. The first is that higher mathematics is central to a serious higher education. [snip] It is both unreasonable and unworkable to insist that all students get such training. Of course, such training should be available to all who desire it. So they argue for not removing higher level maths from the curriculum. Just not making it compulsory. They might feel the same way about Shakespeare and Steinbeck, or learning a foreign language, or pretty much any other high school subject, really.