Enjoyable thread.
I learned a new word thanks to you!
Myelination
Myelin
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-020-00379-8
“Throughout our lifespan, new sensory experiences and learning continually shape our neuronal circuits to form new memories. Plasticity at the level of synapses has been recognized and studied for decades, but recent work has revealed an additional form of plasticity — affecting oligodendrocytes and the myelin sheaths they produce — that plays a crucial role in learning and memory.”
A book you may find interesting that addresses this relating to education is *Better Late than Early* by Drs. Moore and Moore (a husband wife team)
It was written decades ago and is still relevant. It addresses the idea of how neural development and nerve mylenation is related to learning and why it’s pretty much useless to start a child’s education before the age of 8 - 10.
Formal book education, that is. Certainly not teaching them things in general.
Google tells me “Myelination is a fundamental physiologic process within the sequence of human brain maturation, which begins in the second trimester of pregnancy and continues for several postnatal years.” They could be wrong.
Anyhow, be sure to them Mozart in the womb, it makes them happy.