People studying hard sciences, engineering, statistics and mathematics should study calculus, because they need it to understand and solve problems in their dom

People studying hard sciences, engineering, statistics and mathematics should study calculus, because they need it to understand and solve problems in their domain. High school students would be much better served in life studying statistics instead. Far more important decisions in life and public policy are informed by statistics than by calculus. There was a time when I thought more breadth - number and set theory, proofs, and so on - would be better in place of calculus. And while I think it would be an improvement on teaching calculus, it would not be nearly as useful for most students as a better understanding of statistics.