One of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard a math teacher tell me/the class is “you’ll probably never use this outside of this classroom”! And I’ve heard this st

One of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard a math teacher tell me/the class is “you’ll probably never use this outside of this classroom”! And I’ve heard this story before, so it seems slightly common? I entered college without a rock solid foundation in mathematics and it made things much more difficult.