RizzyKing

Your absolutely right Stuart and i hadn't thought about it in those terms although it is one of the reasons i am in favour of a more vocatioanl approach to education from say age 13 to 18. I think we are lacking a lot of the skills that underpin our society and are in danger of becoming a surface culture where as long as what we see is ok we don't know about or care about whats under the bonnet so to speak. I know for myself when i try to teach the kids in our family even tiny basics like running a virus scan or using the spam feature in security packages their eyes just glaze over because they view it as something for someone else to sort if it goes wrong.

I always remember a scene from the original bbc series of survivor's in the seventies when the mum goes to the school and meets the old teacher who asks her if she knows anything about making the things she use's everyday. We are a very throw away society now rather then when i was a kid and there was no greater joy then taking things apart and finding out how they work you don't see that in many kids now.