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>an 8yo's understanding will grow as it ages and will eventually be able to discern much more accurately what is worthwhile and what isn't
not if he's taught to disregard large parts of it from the start. walk into an American public school and tell me how enlightening growing older is and how well 99% of the population can discern much of anything

>not technical manuals aimed at real goals that can contain superfluous or flawed information
and that "superfluous or flawed information" is half the point the manual has been written. why yes it is a great idea to discard one of the main points of a text and just read the parts you think you can determine the worth of. if you want to claim my initial allegory is flawed let me give you a new one. imagine it is your first time working on an engine would you ignore large chunks of an engine's 3rd party repair manual because the engine functioning in the way described in the manual and the steps for repair related to accompanying the explanation are "retarded" but still chose to follow some of the instructions listed, I imagine it's not going to get you very far regardless of whether the explanation and accompanying steps to correct the engines functioning is accurate or not considering you would only be following some of the needed steps.

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