I don't see any advocate of "learning to code" saying we should force people to code. Perhaps not. But anything a teacher tells a learner to do is basically f

I don't see any advocate of "learning to code" saying we should force people to code. Perhaps not. But anything a teacher tells a learner to do is basically force. What choice does the learner have? They don't know any better. This would be fine if what they were teaching were worthwhile. But it won't be: it will be "How to use Rails" (rather than, say, Ruby) or "How to use Bootstrap" rather than actually learning CSS.