For sure on that note, for the last fifteen years or so manufacturers have been making cars that need a 'technician' to even change the freaking oil so kids are being brought up with the idea that the car has to go to a dealer or licensed mechanic to fix a problem. Most cannot even afford the diagnostic machines required for today's computer oriented auto's and bikes.
Although I must say one thing, very near our town, down in Daytona, I had the pleasure of touring one of the technical training facilities for motorcycles and marine engines and systems, and it was a pleasure to see many young faces going to school to learn modern bikes and how to fix em.
The sad part, as said above, is that the demise of the "garage mechanics" is what is happening these days, and though still alive, dwindling rapidly.
Taking your young kids and showing them the way to work on and restore older classic bikes is one way we can preserve that lifestyle and I would hope that still happens in the world. Clubs are a great way to continue that style of working on stuff.
I think when we were younger, working on cars was a fact of life and survival in the great race to get laid...if you had a "hot rod" all fixed up and went street drag racing on the weekends you were bound to score one way or another. Whatever happened to "cruising the main drag" like we saw on American Graffiti?....it's gone....whatever happened to drag strips? Now it's multi million dollar fancy cars, back then you could take your stock '55 chevy to the strip and run "J" stock and have fun. Can you do that now?..
Change is always a part of growing up and that way of life is long gone. There is no reason it can't continue though, via those of us who care enough about preserving that way of life and showing our kids the door to walk through to get there. Love your kids, show them what you know and love and the world will still have a few die hard appreciators of a way of life lost in the shuffle of the modern world.