My, how Canada has changed.

When I was in school, we had lessons that defined what "POWER" is, with equations, that "POWER" is related to amount of work output per unit time, where work can be defined as force times distance.

Those lessons caught the interest of several classmates who went on to be engineers and scientists.

Ah, but in 2017, that is no longer what "POWER" means in terms of what we emphasize to our students. And you can read, in the Ontario school guide referenced with a link in Ms. Wente's column, what the teachers now emphasize:

"POWER is the ability of people to control their environment: Societies (unfortunately) tend to be dominated by people who are part of a group that represents the norm against which all other groups are compared - examples of such unmarked categories of power are “WHITENESS”, “MASCULINITY”, and “HETEROSEXUALITY”. See also "PRIVILEGE"."

Hey, that's awesome. We need more sociology thinkers and fewer engineers and scientists (roll eyes)...