I am not implying anything. >Or, what do you think would be valuable then to do (purposely not saying learn) during those twelve years? I think that this is d

I am not implying anything. >Or, what do you think would be valuable then to do (purposely not saying learn) during those twelve years? I think that this is different between children. Actually I think it could be extremely valuable to learn, but then the child's activities should actually focus on learning effectively. And sitting in a classroom with children not that interested in learning and a teacher trying to find some middle ground is not helping that. Personally I believe that with a good school system I would have been perfectly fine doing university courses at 16 and a good school system would have encouraged me to accomplish exactly that.