kids naturally love learning about the world around them and experiencing awe.

you can see this clearly in your day to day life, give a kid youtube and have them watch the standard slop, they will sit down, but they will just shut their brain off and enjoy the colors.

but give a boy a video of a mantis shrimp for example, he will stand in awe, he will be amazed at it, how does he exist in a world where a creature like that exists.

he will tell his friends about it in excitement, he will look up to learn more about the mantis shrimp and other sea creatures, he will, make drawings of it, he might even want to keep one as a pet, this is the quality that we should respect in children, their willingness to go out there and learn, yet our current education, institutions, and of course parents, do not care, they just want them to shut up and stop crying, and view them as incomplete humans that when grown up is completely superior in every quality.