I often find it difficult to make any progress on a new subject without someone to help me for the first step or two. I remember being confused about html, long ago, for example, and you and one other person taught me enough to understand the books.

My feeling is that it would be much better if schools could give everyone capable of it a clear view of the first couple of steps of basic science, so that anyone who wants to learn the following step - even if only to understand whether to vote for or against something, has a fair chance.

To achieve this in state schools would, I think, require a change of attitude on the part of those who mostly influence public opinion. I suspect that the educated ones are probably almost all arts or classics people at present.