ABSTRACT
Grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics and other skills to free-range learners. These groups exist so that people don’t have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and teachers are often teaching themselves how to teach. Politicians, business leaders and educators often say that people should learn to program because the jobs of the future will require it. However, as Benjamin Doxtdator pointed out, many of those claims are built on shaky ground. Even if they were true, education shouldn’t prepare people for the jobs of the future: it should give them the power to decide what kinds of jobs there are and to ensure that those jobs are worth doing.
