While calculus is good and prestigious to know, knowing it doesn't help as much as knowing statistics. Should I buy the lotto ticket? Does this drug research make sense? Is global warming a real threat? Calculus won't help to answer these questions.
The problem is that the way math is structured at schools is to create background for calculus, not statistics. We are teaching the kids wrong skills!
Here is a very persuasive 3 minute TED talk about it:
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