Math must die so right-think can prosper.
Nobody will prosper today without a steady inflow of mathematicians. Many of them are engineers who use math as a tool, not as a science on its own. Math is the basis of all high technologies today - biology, pharmaceuticals, communications, nuclear energy, chemistry.
A common cellular phone is quite complex, and a scientist of 19th century, even Joseph Fourier himself, wouldn't be necessarily able to grok it even if someone takes the phone apart and explains what each module does. The information theory got started only in 20th century:
The landmark event that established the discipline of information theory, and brought it to immediate worldwide attention, was the publication of Claude E. Shannon's classic paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the Bell System Technical Journal in July and October 1948.
If those "educators" think that they only need a handful of Alphas who can do math, they are wrong. You cannot take a group of people and say "you and you, go and become great mathematicians by tomorrow." In the past quite a few scientists managed to rise from the ranks of lower classes: "Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence..." - but far more failed, at huge loss to humanity.