Well if you come to France, you will find plenty of bridges that were designed before calculus was even a thing and thankfully, they are still standing. Calculu

Well if you come to France, you will find plenty of bridges that were designed before calculus was even a thing and thankfully, they are still standing. Calculus is mostly theoretical science and is not strongly related to engineering, even though nowadays engineers may start with this tool. Education does have some value but I believe it is mostly for people looking to push the envelope and do research. For people who are going to be part of the industry/workforce it's extremely overrated, especially since all knowledge has a useful half-life that tends to be pretty short. If you pick people 20 years after their studies and ask them questions about the curriculum, they are probably going to be unable to answer much of it, outside of what they regularly use for their current or previous job.