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[Algernon Moncrieff]

17. I gotta kinda disagree here

We teach kids to draw... and many of us, on occasion, have to draw as adults. It's helpful to Home Depot if you can show a basic layout of one's kitchen, for example.

Do we teach kids how to play with Legos? I don't remember that part of school. I remember being given Leos and figuring it out for myself.

Kids aren't taught to play baseball in elementary school. Not in public schools, anyway. Kids learn Baseball, Softball, Basketball, Soccer, etc. in youth leagues as an elective activity. They sign up for it -- or their parents sign them up. The public elementary schools here mostly play less skill and rule intensive games, like dodge ball, or have kids climbing fake rock walls.

I guess my take is that the fine motor skills they should be learning -- and need to learn -- are the proper keyboarding techniques that will have them avoiding carpal tunnel in their 40s.