what I believe is more necessary is to develop the skills required in order to not only learn how to use them, but be able to create them too.
Well i would say there are engineers, and the rest of the world... So there are the creators and the users. It's not a real expectation from the next generation, at least not from the whole. A part of them will be creator, just like it was in the past and is in the present.
Although a basic level of repair skills would be more expected even from the users.