There have been many recent postings on the high costs of tuition. Some have suggested that we use Rebeeim to teach secular subjects. One of the main points of emphasis in calculus reform is providing fresh, new exciting examples of calculus that are relevant. For example, the old calculus texts only had physics examples since the main creator of calculus, Newton, was interested in Physics. Current books, however, have examples from medicine, sociology, learning theory, chemistry, psychology etc.
Students learn, the theories say, because they have good role models to imitate .