[jimmygrapes]

I expected this comment coming into the thread. I would just like to point out that there is a huge range of options between those two extremes!

If is entirely possible to teach up a child to be curious AND well rounded in the basics (see also concepts of Trivarium and Quadrivium, sorry can't link the references atm).

[mcphage]

> there is a huge range of options between those two extremes!

Which two extremes would those be?

[echelon_musk]

Presumably the extremes of left and right?

[jen20]

(Which are, of course, far more similar than people that identify with either extreme would ever admit).