Students should aspire to be “data samurais”.
Andrew Gelman, Lance Fortnow, Panos Ipeirotis and Bo Cowgill are hot again all of the sudden. 
Amazing videos of Arthur Benjamin:
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Great post! In a slightly ironic twist, Benjamin was actually MY Calculus teacher freshman year
But I do agree with him that probability and statistics is more useful in the “real” world.
Currently though, prob/stats are taught with a large calculus component so the curriculum would really have to be dramatically changed to make it more accessible as a pre-calculus course.
“Benjamin was actually MY Calculus teacher freshman year”
Amazing. Great.
Happy to hear from you again, by the way. I hope all is well with you and HubDub.
Chris
On a broader point, you would be well served as a Frenchman to promote Badiou and his notion of “mathematics as ontology”. Moreover, you and your merry band of readers would all do well to put Badiou’s “Being and Event” on your holiday reading lists; for a little light vacation reading.