...olleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It）的作者之一安德鲁·赫克尔（Andrew Hacker）。他自称在一生的学术生涯中要频频依靠数学，写这种文章，并非自己不懂数学而不让下一代学习数学。
As AndrewHacker points out in the New York Review of Books, teenagers are a significant source of low-paid labour in supermarkets, shopping malls and fast-food franchises.