I'd take a different tack. It's like mathematics. (Hell, it is mathematics.) Every educated, conscious person should have some familiarity with, and hopefull

I'd take a different tack. It's like mathematics. (Hell, it is mathematics.) Every educated, conscious person should have some familiarity with, and hopefully curiosity about, math. In my opinion. Very few of us (certainly not including me) seem to have much in the way of natural aptitude for it, though. In fact, most of us seem to have an anti-aptitude. That doesn't change its importance. I say that not because you need to do arithmetic (that's what calculators are for) or because you'll need to actually ever use the calculus they taught you back in high school (you probably won't). But because math underlies everything else. If a student comes out of their grade school math classes unable to do long division or solve a linear equation, but with an intuition for basic ideas in set theory and probability, I'd call that a roaring success. In analogy to that, while you may not need to learn to code, I do think you need some computer science to understand the modern world.