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The secret is to make high school a lot HARDER. Not wanting to do a 'when I was young rant' but I learned the calculus at age 15-16 US grade 9-10. Then in our 'senior' high schools we only studied core subjects eg. maths+physics

Now I lecture to physics undergrads who have never been taught calculus. So not only do we have to teach them intro maths techniques but they have never really studied physics - they have been shown fun and interesting demonstrations and given a simple hand-waving 'explanation' - but without being able to follow the maths you can't explain it.

I'm sorry but the answer to fixing the science and engineering problem isn't more fun science games in high school, or pretty computer demos of experiments - it's concentrating on lots of hard boring maths earlier and earlier.

On it's own no. As an example of the 1000s of tiny details that make it a fantastic product - yes.

Is the magnetic power supply attachment worth $10 more (actually yes it is!)

Or the lack of 'Intel' inside 'designed for blah' stickers all over the case - these cost Apple $5

Or the way the lid fits to the case when closed with no gap, or the rounded corners of the windows on MacOS?