The article is a mess. It suggest that all people are intellectually curious as children, after which this curiosity is destroyed in the education system. It

The article is a mess. It suggest that all people are intellectually curious as children, after which this curiosity is destroyed in the education system. It provides zero evidence for this sweeping conclusion. Education not being very fun and not very personalized does not prove that intellectual curiosity is wiped out. Anybody whom has spent any time with children or are old enough to see a child develop into a full grown adult would have noticed the dramatic individual differences in their behavior and abilities, many likely to be genetic. All children are curious to a degree, which quite simply is a biological necessity to understand how this world works. But deep curiosity for curiosity's sake, for no immediate purpose: only found in specific individuals. They just seem to be born with it. To illustrate how large individual differences can be, meet my family. Father. Poor upbringing. Life long blue collar worker. Near-zero education. Has read about 50% of all the books in the town's library. Born intellectually curious and remains so against all odds. Mother. Housewife with some past side jobs. Lowly educated. Zero intellectual curiosity. Watches a soap opera and reads a gossipy mag, and you can't get her interested in anything else. She has low capacity to do so, furthermore is anxious and scared of anything new. She's always been this way. Brother. Grunt worker like my father but with the intellectual limitations of my mother. A mix of the two. Again, has always been this way. Me. Intellectually curious like my father, with some soft sides from my mother. Tinkerer from the very start. Girlfriend. Perhaps most painful. Intelligent and educated. But not intellectually curious. The education system didn't discourage it, she simply never was intellectually curious. Where a small sample size is usually a shortcoming in providing any evidence, here I'd make the point that the incredible diversity in outcomes of such a small sample size illustrates my point: you're intellectually curious or you're not. Some simply lack the capacity to be that curious. Some do have the capacity but still don't use it. Some can be convinced to use it, by force or incentive. And for some it's completely effortless and just whom you are. The idea that we all are (as children) is nonsense. The idea that the education system wipes this out, is nonsense. But if I were to give the author the benefit of the doubt on this part, it is absolutely destroyed in the libertarian take on free market education. So the idea here is that universities should go bankrupt if they fail to deliver the student a high paying job. So you put businesses in the driving seat of "intellectual curiosity" and life long learning. Businesses. You can't be serious. There can't be any entity that cares less. The connections between concepts seem completely random and made-up.