The act of learning how to do the math establishes a new kind of brain wiring in your mind, a kind of problem solving brain wiring. So it's not about what you learn, it's about what methods, tools, and tactics you have to develop in order to solve the problem that you may never see again for the rest of your life. But you will see other problems where these methods and tools will become immensely valuable to you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson