I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
My major allegiance has been to storytelling not to history.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for...
In the free/libre software movement we develop software that respects users' freedom so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.