<p>In junior high many moons ago, it was mandatory for us to take industrial arts, which involved everything from drafting using mechanical pencils & a T-square to actual ‘shop’, using machines with weird names like ‘lathe’. Even though I had absolutely no proclivity towards that kind of stuff at all, I loved it. Didn’t follow up on it at all in high school or further, but I think more of that type of thing is better, earlier, before everyone gets caught up with not choosing classes that could potentially screw up a GPA.</p>