My 3 homeschooled grandsons, ages 4, 8, 12, read stuff I read as a teenager reading lots of History and entomology and SciFi. Well the 4 yr old is still reading about tractors and airplanes.
When I discovered Rush in 1990 I added one hour of listening and a quiz to my daughters lessons...
We listened together to the first hour.. It was called Current Events
When I was in middle school on Fridays for 15 minutes there would be a special radio broadcast to schools with 4 different news items for that week...
We had to take notes and then we would have a quiz...
It was called Current Events...
When I was 8 I found a book in the public library called The Kremlin .. It was a history of Russia through all the Czars etc I read the whole book...
Years later I found a copy of that same book and was amazed at my ability to read and understand such an adult level book.. It was college level stuff...
But thats the type of education we received when I was a child...
We were taught to think and a hunger for knowledge was a given...