I think it begs the question, but is Calculus the best and only way to exercise your brain? What if you did programming instead? Or learned anything else? More

I think it begs the question, but is Calculus the best and only way to exercise your brain? What if you did programming instead? Or learned anything else? More practical math maybe even like Linear Algebra? It reminds me of how my teachers justified why we were learning Latin, it'll make you better at languages, it'll be easier for you to learn other languages after... But all this is true if you learn Spanish instead, and you also happen to have learned a practical skill while you're at it!