There should be some allowance for self-direction, but humans are only "smart and savvy" over a period of several hundred generations and not any specific indiv

There should be some allowance for self-direction, but humans are only "smart and savvy" over a period of several hundred generations and not any specific individual. By the time a kid figures out that he should have learned something, he'll have great-grandchildren (assuming he's still alive at all).