[Rick Lee]

I went to a snooty prep school, where you flat out did not get out of there without knowing how to read and write and do math. Any D student there was probably better equipped than most A/B students from today's public schools. In my AB Calculus class once, a kid asked the teacher, "Mr. G, when am I ever going to use the second derivative in real life?" Teacher replied, "I used it last night while on line at the grocery store." We all laughed, but the sick thing is, he was the kind of guy who could set up such equations in his head that fast. My dad is one of those guys too. Not many of them left out there.