I'm not sure what would make you uneasy about that, almost all infant learning happens this way. The education system we understand is a trade off of educating

I'm not sure what would make you uneasy about that, almost all infant learning happens this way. The education system we understand is a trade off of educating the masses vs cost, nothing about the education system that we went through was determined to be the best system for everyone (thus you could argue, for anyone though obviously some do excel) and there is no real basis to believe that initially abstracting the pedagogical outcome of a topic from learning the underlying mechanics would have any detrimental effect on the learners long-term understanding. If you extend this concept out you could very well have large impact in the adult learning sector, where often the students have grown to develop a bias towards certain subjects or areas (math especially) which makes them quite difficult to engage. The barriers could potentially be reduced using the same abstraction mechanic.