I see in the most recent Education section another article on the pointlessness of algebra.
How quaint, and proposed by an economist, too!
This criticism was first published in 1973 by a professor of mathematics, Morris Kline, in his screed on the New Math, “Why Johnny Can’t Add.”
Am I alone in thinking that we should also drop Shakespeare from the high school curriculum, on the grounds that Shakespeare is useless in this modern era?
Stephen Armstrong
Hadley