For the best players the progression from little league to junior high to high school leads to a scholarship at a big-name college and maybe one day a shot at the pros.
Lengthy periods of economic stagnation or decline have almost always left society more mean-spirited and less inclusive, and have usually stopped or reversed the advance of rights and freedoms.
Beaten first by the march of technology and lately by the terrible weather in junkyards, the phone boxes representative of an age are now making something of a comeback.
The Purdue scaffold looks like a very interesting approach—it's certainly an advance—but until it's been tested in vivo, it's difficult to comment further.