Some of the justifications that I have heard for keeping math as a requirement in college is that math helps students think analytically. However, there are plenty of other courses  that help with analytical thinking. I found an excerpt that makes me think that maybe people should not spend too much time thinking analytically because it has found to cause depression. In this excerpt, it explain thats people who isolate themselves to work on math problems often get depression because of the time and energy to think critically.www.physicsforums.com