For once I agree with you. However you are seen to lose the argument every time you resort to abuse. I guess you will never learn, hopefully ARW's apprentices will.
My mother and family members did the washing and cooking. I had interests in anything mechanical and electrical, but that is even less likely these days.
I was inept at 16, and yet managed to go to uni.
You have to treat an apprentice as a schoolboy, where he has to be spoon-fed at every stage until it becomes second nature, what we would call common sense.
I didn't have a car at 16.