>> instead of watching YouTube videos about Thomas Jefferson, or Nikola Tesla, or even Magellan > Not sure what kind of a reality you live in This sounds like

>> instead of watching YouTube videos about Thomas Jefferson, or Nikola Tesla, or even Magellan > Not sure what kind of a reality you live in This sounds like a neckbeard fantasy of what an 'intellectual' childhood is like. In reality, I doubt any child has been raised that way since John Stuart Mill, and he was suicidal by 20. Fwiw, I went to a school whose students, well- if anyone in the world were raised as described by that commenter, those would be the people. I can say without a doubt that the kids whose parents were even approaching that kind of attitude are the ones who grew up more depressed, and no more accomplished. (My underlying point is that, needless hopefully to say, no one has ever grown up without idle entertainment. Well, short of cavemen, maybe. This whole "take previous generations'/societies' high culture and assume it's what everyone did day in day out" is one of the most irritating of the neckbeard tropes, in a strong field of competitors.)