schoolchild

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The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people...

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a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

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noun

a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

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noun

a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

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The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people...

Also if your job is easy enough to be done by a schoolchild after minimal training, I'm not sure you deserve it.

Mark Twain, for those who don't know, is one of the US's most defining authors; I read his fiction as a schoolchild. I think the answer to the OP's question is simpler: We're the world's most warlike people, spending probably more than the rest of the world combined on military.

You can't just give every schoolchild one and expect anything particularly new to happen on it's own. Finally the claim that a new model of computer will 'Save' the UK is so beyond ludicrous that I don't know where to begin.

Every schoolchild in America is told experiments begin with hypotheses. Granted that isn't how things work in the real world, but it isn't categorically untrue either.

If at their next meeting the G20 countries were to donate a dollar for every schoolchild in their country then Wikipedia would have an endowment that could cover their costs for the long term.

>> The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people... Or how it would 'only take a day' to learn how to operate on people, for that matter.

>> The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people... \n> Or how it would 'only take a day' to learn how to operate on people, for that matter.

While I share your wishes that more people would learn to program, this quote rubbed me the wrong way: "Also if your job is easy enough to be done by a schoolchild after minimal training, I'm not sure you deserve it." The question is not whether the job can done by a schoolchild with minimal training. The question is: Does your boss think that it can be done by a schoolchild with minimal training?

A schoolchild walking home in uniform may be better behaved than otherwise, because he or she is representing the school, whether that's intentionally known and communicated or not. My school had explicit rules about how we should behave when in uniform outside of school, and we lost some agency because of that.