What rubbish.
Learning maths at school doesn't make everyone go on to become mathematicians... it does however give people the tools to advance their knowledge and productivity in other areas and give a more rounded education.
Hell, In my engineering degree we learn C/C++ and I have coursemates who still can't craft a simple program. You can lead a horse to water and all that.
We should still give people the grounding and chance to learn in the same way we do for maths/biology/art/whatever and we'll discover a lot of hidden talent. It is not as if this will suddenly make Software Engineers ten a penny.
Can think of this helping productivity when assembling things/reading manuals.
Imagine how much quicker assembling IKEA furniture would become, no more downing tools and picking up the manual, the manual would update with you real time!
Also with tutorials on learning and making things like circuits, knitting, cooking etc. They should have highlighted use cases like this.
Hell, In my engineering degree we learn C/C++ and I have coursemates who still can't craft a simple program. You can lead a horse to water and all that.
We should still give people the grounding and chance to learn in the same way we do for maths/biology/art/whatever and we'll discover a lot of hidden talent. It is not as if this will suddenly make Software Engineers ten a penny.