Exactly - teaching people how to use software to solve problems at an early age is not railroading them into a single career path, it's setting them up to be mo

Exactly - teaching people how to use software to solve problems at an early age is not railroading them into a single career path, it's setting them up to be more effective in the career path that they eventually choose. An administrative assistant who can write scripts to collate and email weekly reports to their boss is far more valuable than one who spends four hours a week combing through excel spreadsheets. A visual artist who can write their own plugins for Blender/Maya/Photoshop/etc will be much more flexible and productive than one who performs the same 2-minute-long string of commands hundreds of times a day. A machinist who can quickly design a part in Solidworks and send it to a CNC mill or lathe will be able to serve a wider range of customer needs than one who outsources that design work or crafts the part by hand. And so on. Why is there so much hostility to the idea of teaching children some basic programming skills at an early age?