And to think, Home Economics was pushed off the curriculum as not being as "important" as other subjects. Cooking? Some simple sewing? Nah, that'll never be useful.

I'm reminded of that classic line by Val Kilmer in the movie, Red Planet, in a tense moment when a group of astronauts that crash land on Mars need to calculate where they are so they can reach shelter.

"This is it. The moment they told us about in high school...where one day, algebra would save our lives."