[sophacles]

Teaching someone to learn should damn well include exposure to a lot of different things to help them see the use of learning. It should include a "sandbox" wherein they can learn skills without consequences of simple mistakes and other learning related "failure" instilling a fear of living life.

It should include a bunch of basic skills as well - because seriously, I'd rather be taught "here's the common, most successful way of doing X" rather than having to go out and discover it on my own for thousands of random skills. Does that mean one day I may have to give up my notion of "checkbook register" that is comfortable and I've known forever in favor of "proper double entry book keeping" - absolutely, and you know what, I'll take a class on that too. But in the mean time, I won't be figuring out how to track my dollars on my own, and in the future I won't rediscover double entry for myself. Why?

I'm too busy focusing on software stuff in depth. That's where I'm focusing my "learn for myself" talents and limited time.