Do I have to think everyone needs to learn to code in order to want to teach _more_ people to code or to want to advance the state of the art in coding pedagogy

Do I have to think everyone needs to learn to code in order to want to teach _more_ people to code or to want to advance the state of the art in coding pedagogy? I don't think EVERYONE needs these skills. Most people will never need them. But: - I think getting underprivileged kids excited about coding/making games/robots/etc may be an excellent way to provide more kids with a good future. - I _really_ wish more legislators had backgrounds in software. I think concepts like technical debt, KISS, code reuse, etc as well as the general method of translating business requirements to code are more applicable to that domain than generally appreciated.