My high school math teacher refused to teach calculus. We spent year after year on algebra, trig, geometry, and did proofs. Lots and lots of proofs. He told

My high school math teacher refused to teach calculus. We spent year after year on algebra, trig, geometry, and did proofs. Lots and lots of proofs. He told me not to worry about when I went to college and studied calculus as I would be much better at it than the students that studied calc in high school. Smart man, he was right. The first two weeks in my first college calc class I felt a little uneasy and understood that I was the only person in class that had not studied this stuff in high school. After those first two weeks though, it was not a problem and I swept through 6 calc classes without a sweat. 20 years later of course, I'm a math idiot again...use it or lose it ;)