“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable sub-human who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
- Lazarus Long
Though I do think, in this modern computer age, we should spend less time on calculus and make sure our kids learn some discrete math and linear algebra before they get out of high school.
Yes, there is math and then there is advanced math.
Everyone should know basic math, budgeting, basic home accounting, price comparisons, weights and measures, that sort of thing.