@Paul, yup, but keep in mind the capacity of most people is still limited.
You can teach your kid to be a chip designer at 7 but that comes at expense in other areas. The future is in specialization however, so I suspect we'll see that more and more.
A little 1-2 year old kid is a plasticine you can mold in any shape. Whatever he was in touch with, he'd form brand new structures in his brain to understand it, and the most common patterns associated with it.
In the common case, we learn less interesting and more generic stuff as kids, and build our "hardware base" upon that. Then we need to adapt our more generic knowledge to learn other concepts later in life.
It's like learning a second language. You may think you know it so well, your brain can't tell apart the two. But in fact your first language uses completely different part of your part than the ones you learned later in life.
School education in fact usually butchers the capacity of kids to learn something worth it while they still can, by feeding them useless garbage they forget later on.
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@Paul, yup, but keep in mind the capacity of most people is still limited.
You can teach your kid to be a chip designer at 7 but that comes at expense in other areas. The future is in specialization however, so I suspect we'll see that more and more.
A little 1-2 year old kid is a plasticine you can mold in any shape. Whatever he was in touch with, he'd form brand new structures in his brain to understand it, and the most common patterns associated with it.
In the common case, we learn less interesting and more generic stuff as kids, and build our "hardware base" upon that. Then we need to adapt our more generic knowledge to learn other concepts later in life.
It's like learning a second language. You may think you know it so well, your brain can't tell apart the two. But in fact your first language uses completely different part of your part than the ones you learned later in life.
School education in fact usually butchers the capacity of kids to learn something worth it while they still can, by feeding them useless garbage they forget later on.