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Almost every man had a good if basic science and electricity background and could change a light socket, install a plumbing pipe and know the principles of brazing it, or even fix a radio set. Women too, but they were not taught those things or did not motivate to learn them.

Somewhere along the ine the reason for the -need- to have the basic STEM knowledge has been forgotten. STEM is one of the things that helped the USA be great.

I don't know if they teach basket weaving in today's high school, but I bet not if it involves using a knife to cut the straw. Or electricity, or a torch, power tools, flamable liquids, sandpaper.. etc etc.
My friend's daughter got a job at the "(name witheld) School Radio Station". Yes a 10KW FM station. haha nice for the schools to have money.. but I asked her, "So, have you signed up to work the transmitter"? (which today would only involve logging the meter readings!) "Oh no.. they won't let us near that, it's behind glass..". So she had to be a DJ and then do the programming. She wanted to learn something about the electronics and transmitter. but no, let's not do that, let's dumb it all down to the least common technical denominator, let's just have artists and paper pushers. Nothing against DJs and talent but she wanted to be a "radio engineer". Poor 15 year old kid. Don't they realize there is an unfair shortage of female engineers?

All the brains are full of carpet remnants and syrupy drivel. It is almost as if "doing one's own handy work" or having a backyard shop or lab to tinker in would violate some social taboo or something. It's the lack of STEM and that promotes such ignorance and intellectual sloth on a national scale.
2 men take their boats to the lake and go fishing. They cheat and use fish finders, but one of them built his own fish finder and designed it to also make the sounds to lure the fish over. While the other guy with the storebought fish finder is mocking the neighbor's home made job, the hacker gets the bite every time.