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Originally Posted by Goldenstate
The French government mandated the development of the metric system... The people were resistant to the change but with the help of the guillotine, they got past the issue of a new standardized system of measurement.
...If the new generation is taught the metric system, the next generation will be so much easier to teach the metric system to.
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As you have pointed out, people have to be forced to use something regularly or they forget. Merely teaching the metric system is not enough, as we were all taught a massive amount of stuff we no longer remember. I'd guess only 5% of the population knows F=M*A (Newton's Second Law of Motion), but everyone was taught it. Since people don't have to know what force is required to accelerate their vehicles, they don't remember the equation. The same goes in teaching people to think in the metric system; once they are no longer forced to utilize it, the skill evaporates.