You do not have to be smart to reach calculus 3. Perhaps you need to be smart to truly understand the concept behind every single theory and such but that's not even necessary. A lot of calculus is just simply knowing how to do a simple process. It's only complicated because there's a LOT of simple steps you have to do but that doesn't make it hard, it just means you have to focus on what you're doing.
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Oh absolutely. Noam Chomsky was talking about that in one of his lectures once over education. He said at the graduate level you basically do your own thing. You explore and come to your own conclusions. The professors or lab PI is just there to guide you along the way but its mostly all you.
If that was the case, more people would do it. There is a major disconnect in these higher maths. If you make it a requirement, only 30% of people would graduate high school and would have suicide rates of Japanese students. There would be a major backlash in this.
As I said, the reason why more people don't do it is because they look at how complicated it is from ALL of the simple steps put together. Most people do not have the attention span or the focus to solve a problem involving 50 different steps, even if the individual steps are pretty easy. And I know this for a fact because most of calculus is just a bunch of algebra and algebra is not hard.
The good thing is, I believe most people have the ability to improve their focus and work ethic. It just takes time, like everything else. There is nothing stopping the average person from succeeding in calculus except for their own lack of focus.