The fundamentals are broken. Most people today can't explain magnetism or build a basic electromagnet, let alone understand how a motor works. This wasn't always the case—from the 1930s to 1980s, hands-on projects like building simple motors were standard in schools.
This is first-principles thinking at its core. You learn by building, not by reading about it. The excuse? Cost. But we're talking about batteries and wire—literally pennies per student.
The real cost is a generation that doesn't understand the physical systems running their world. Every elementary school should spend 3 weeks on this. Build it. Break it. Understand it. That's how you create engineers, not just users.
This is first-principles thinking at its core. You learn by building, not by reading about it. The excuse? Cost. But we're talking about batteries and wire—literally pennies per student.
The real cost is a generation that doesn't understand the physical systems running their world. Every elementary school should spend 3 weeks on this. Build it. Break it. Understand it. That's how you create engineers, not just users.
