Adrian Smith is right. The government should resist demands to force-feed 16-year-olds with more mathematics.
‘We have been afflicted in our time by a lack of scientists.’
This lament on the shortage of people with quantitative skills comes from the 11th century Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam.
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