I agree. There's only so far you can go in probability theory without knowing calculus--but learning up to that point in probability is far more useful to 19 out of 20 non-engineers than calculus is.
The funny thing is that over here in the UK the press have claimed that schools are dumbing down maths education based partly on the fact that they don't teach calculus or geometry as part of the compulsory curriculum. It's been replaced with (amongst other things) basic probability and statistics which apparently wasn't taught until university before.
Interesting! The response of the press is predictable; but I'm actually very curious what the results will be for the generation raised on probability.
