You cannot really understand the nature of exponentiation if you do not understand calculus! Whoever is saying is likely ignorant or they have a shallow underst

You cannot really understand the nature of exponentiation if you do not understand calculus! Whoever is saying is likely ignorant or they have a shallow understanding, and when I say shallow, I really mean it, as in their knowledge is not sufficient. You cannot know a how dependence based on a power over a linear relationship is "stronger" without talking about rate of change, which is literally calculus. Perhaps you can have an intuitive notion of change, and that's fine, but the point of education often is to either refine intuition or correct it. And that then leads me to my point above: if your knowledge is shallow, to the point that it limits you, then why clamor to limit yourself or further to limit others?