Complex Numbers - Complex Life

      Complex numbers have practical applications in many fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, economics, electrical engineering. Imaginary numbers can be attributed to Rafael Bombelli in 1572. Applications of imaginary numbers in electrical engineering focuses on use j instead of i due to current is in V=IR or Voltage equals current times resistance.
      In the future complex number will be taught to 6th graders and calculus in elementary or junior high school to prepare college or high school for quantum mechanics in 50 years or less. Many high end high schools like Berkeley High School teach Calculus in High school and quantum mechanics due to most of the country's educational system is 200 years out of date.
      Compare textbooks today to the language used in the 50 years ago. They have dumbed down education, "leave no child  behind" means pass a child even though he is failing, because we don't want to spend the funds on students or salaries to teachers to attract more teachers. The rich take care of their own children with placing them in elite schools of learning to ensure their children will have a predominant role of our society by ensuring they go the best prep schools for Oxford, Harvard, and MIT.
     Our Dept of Education is 100 years out of date! We still require Poetry in high school and English Literature. We are a planetary community and should mandate reading books from all the countries in the world. Our leisure based society has reduced homework for students and teachers such that it won't impede their time after work, school.
Why isn't the following a requirement for graduation. We don't we teach Financial Education, Speed Reading, Proper Typing proficiency, and how to write a 50 page thesis in high school.  This is the first time in history of the "type writer" that this generation types and texts with 2 fingers.
Dragon speaking, and verbal dictation has replaced typing proficiency.
Why isn't Physics and Chemistry mandated to graduate high school but only necessary for college. I would think all students. Other countries laugh at our leisure based society in some ways and envy or scientific achievements in other ways. We have such a high level of scientific illiteracy that 34% of all students after high school and college never read a book again.
How many books do you have on your tablet in .mobi, .epub, or .pdf format?
One can have thousands of books on one tablet to read in bed, how many of you read a book at night in bed? Ever hear of Evelyn Wood Speed Reading? All presidents for the last 50 years have taken this to get their reading up to 100-5000 wpm such as 500 words per minute by John F. Kennedy.
We have online learning which has isolated people from interaction of classrooms to provide a think tank for human interaction. I think we need to have more online interaction for online learning. Until the feelings you get between people can be transmitted over the internet, classroom environments have their benefits and helping people to learn good emotional intelligence and soft skills necessary in society.

References:
https://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/questionCorner/complexinlife.html
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Imaginary_number.html
http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/math/algtrig/ato6/electricalresouce.htm
http://www.picomonster.com/
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/select/dm_imaginary.html
http://mathforum.org/johnandbetty/frame.htm

Literacy Today or Lack

Today literacy in American Society is the lowest in Generations.
Read the book on "Science Matters - Achieving Scientific Literacy (revised, updated) - R. Hazen, J. Trefil (Anchor, 2009).
In Defense of Science - Why Scientific Literacy Matters - F. Spellman, et. al., (GI, 2011)
Speed Reading like Evelyn Wood should be required for all Junior High and High School Students along with a mandate on basic classes in the sciences to graduate.
Most high school student cannot read or write to APA standards, and are financially illiterate due to the erosion of American School System and lack of modernization to the 21st Century.