You gotta get your hands dirty... (Score 1)

Slashdot linked to a story a few months ago about how kids just didn't grasp physics, weight and the like. Kids today have a hard time knowing which branch can bear their weight - or that standing too close to a horse can be dangerous. Video games just can't teach you everything about the analog world. In this week's retelling of survivors stories from the North WTC tower there was an especially telling scene; Financial analysts and lawyers looked on in disbelief as a janitor kicked his way through a sheetrock wall. They had been trapped for some time and it never occured to them to go THROUGH a wall. As the lawyer being interviewd said "I thought WE were the smart ones" We live more in our experiences than in the REAL world - The more experiences you have, the bigger your world.