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Exactly - everyone should learn basic plumbing! Not the best analogy he could have used.

• maguay 14y ago
  He did say that everyone should learn some basic concepts of programming, which I think we could all agree with. Perhaps everyone shouldn't know how to create the next Gmail, but surely there's an advantage to us all knowing how for loops work and how to write a bit of simple code (perhaps just doing math and text basics in Ruby). Many schools already teach this as a standard part of their curriculum using Basic.
• wes-exp 14y ago
  I don't think he means that learning plumbing is a bad idea. I think his point is just that a big hype cluster around learning plumbing would seem silly. There are a lot of useful skills in the world. Programming is one. Plumbing is another. Let's not get crazy and over-emphasize programming.