This freedom-killing notion is surely being taught in public skools. I know of a few teenagers that have reached driving age and have no interest in getting a license much less a car.
I can’t understand it. I couldn’t wait to drive. I can still feel the excitment I had the first few times my parents let me borrow their car and go off to the mall or work on my own.
I guess the skools are doing their bit to stomp that desire out of the kids.
I had my Private Pilot rating before I had my driver’s license. Soloed in sailplanes at 15 and had my license at 16. Got around to getting my driver’s license a couple of weeks after that, but ironically my parents had to drive me to my check ride. I was just so focused on flying that driving wasn’t such an immediate concern.
I find myself observing kids around that age today and thinking about whether I believe they would be capable of acting as pilot in command of an aircraft. With the exception of a number of conservative kids I know, the answer is universally “Not a chance.”