Open technology is clearly the way to go, and allowing kids to access the source code has GOT to be a good thing.

But the ‘view source’ button itself – it isn’t a magic learning solution. Although some gifted kids will be able and motivated to teach themselves, this is fairly unlikely to be the norm.

In your case, for example, do you think you’d have been able to teach yourself Basic if you hadn’t been to school and been taught literacy, math, science, etc, as well as you had been?