In the current academic condition, the best education is 4 years in the Navy and a set of Harvard Classics well read.
When I was in second grade, I read through the shelf of biographies in the children’s section. I don’t remember, but they were probably the Hallmark or similar series. When my kids were young, I read biographies to them (those people were REAL action heroes). Once when my son was around 4 or 5 (about 30 years ago) he was visiting my parents when my West Point graduate brother visited. My brother called me and asked how my son knew who Baron von Steuben was. My brother said probably not 1 in 10 people would know that. I think my brother was being optimistic, even back then. It’s astounding to me that today there are kids in college who don’t know who the first American president was.