Universal public schooling in its modern form is very recent and certainly not some sort of biological imperative. Before cheap books and universal literacy (w

Universal public schooling in its modern form is very recent and certainly not some sort of biological imperative. Before cheap books and universal literacy (which is frankly something of an overstatement), it wasn't remotely plausible to expect reading books to be a near ubiquitous pastime, and even now recreational reading has decreased in the past few decades. You may quite like to read, but framing it a some kind of eternal and universal experience is just complete nonsense.