> To me your passage itself is an indicator that that’s not the level most three year olds are at. I think we can focus more heavily on pre-scholastic educatio

> To me your passage itself is an indicator that that’s not the level most three year olds are at. I think we can focus more heavily on pre-scholastic education without raising our expectations. No one ever expected me to do anything; my family tree is extremely anti-intellectual. Despite the lack of expectations, I found the motivation to educate myself. The main driving motivation was fear of not being in control of myself or of being controlled by others, which I found knowledge could combat. We don't typically instill this motivation in children, because largely as parents we just either don't know any better or don't have the motivation ourselves. But I don't think that the average performance of a preschooler is indicative of the potential average performance. Too many factors come into play. So without raising expectations, we can increase our attention to our children's developmental years, and instill within them the proper motivations by example. Again, it isn't easy. And you're right, it doesn't completely generalize. Every person is unique. But I'm shooting for the average here. On average, we take for granted the learning capacity of children, and take for granted how much the early phases of their childhood impacts the rest of their life. To bring it back around, YouTube itself, in addition to tons of other online resources, has been a fundamental tool in my education. I would not nearly be where I am today without it. I can only imagine what I could have accomplished if YouTube as it is today existed in my youth. I don't think we should be denying that to children. I agree that Google needs to do better. It's that, or outside regulation will eventually creep in and turn the internet into the new TV.