Sad that the march to abandon reason has reached this far, where even the most rudimentary mathematical knowledge is scorned. Maybe degrees should be given out based on attendence and self esteem. Without algebra, people could not evaluate even at a broad level the tenability of a scientific or technical claim, they would be denied any form of meaningful understanding of probability, algorithms, complexity, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, even linguistics has deep roots in algebraic notions. To abandon the teaching of algebra would be to condemn the public to a life of ignorance and obedience to crowd think.
