[dsr_]

I think that education ought to be available to everyone, but spending effort trying to teach someone who doesn't want to learn is a waste of everyone's time.

We've all heard the stories where someone bright joins a new workplace, is assigned drudgework and after a bit automates it until they only work two hours a week? That's someone who is willing to learn, and everyone else in the office was willing to experience boredom in order to avoid learning.

For all I know, some of those people would have perked right up if the subject matter were milling, millinery or masonry moving millier-weights of stone. Not everyone is interested in the same things, and even when their job is all about it, sometimes people aren't invested in it.

If it works, everyone involved wins. Sometimes it doesn't work.

[_y5hn]

This is where leadership comes in, to make clear division of responsibilities.

You're doing everyone a disfavour giving out full answers or not demanding some homework first, and often, it's really an ego-issue.