i’m not sure a single thing you wrote in here is true. it feels like each sentence is further than the previous.

we set them loose with the wolves, and it was fun? i don’t think this is true.

> We understand reason and organization because we have explored the chaos.

again, i don’t think this is true either. there are many ways we can learn reason, and if by chaos, youre implying from your previous paragraph, we can only understand reason if we’ve roamed in chaos with wild animals, this is absurd from front to back.

> You don’t get wise men from boring kids.

Again, this is just more meaningless phrase, with no basis in reality.

I know plenty of wise people who had extraordinarily boring lives growing up.

I know plenty of “fully functional” adult humans who had entirely unremarkable and non-chaotic childhoods.

I would even venture that the literal opposite of everything you said is true, the most broken and screwed up people I know grew up in chaos while the most sane, rational (and yes, wise) people were “boring kids.”

Back when my family was in the old country it really was like this. Children were free range as soon as they could walk. They’d scarcely be able to speak and would be running all over the village and up and down the mountainsides. When the Germans came during world war II, the boys would hide in bushes with a stolen pistol and take shots at the troops.

I believe the "boring kids" statement was intended to mean something like "You don't get wise men by boring (verb) boys in a classroom all day." Boring them because the teacher is boring, rather than a judgement about how interesting the boys are.

Nicely put. The problem though is our society requires children to behave in a certain way at a certain age, late bloomers will simply be left aside in most cases.

That is some alternative history