That is why it is important to “identify the nature of the thing”. Children are drawn to particular interests, some of them healthy and some of them unhealthy. Parents can ‘direct’ their children in many ways. Forcibly training a child in music, while they hate it, may be detrimental in the long run. From my experience, children need to study, practice, and be passionate about a craft or interest. But passion comes later, during adolescence, when pubescent children really get a better understanding about themselves, friendships, and life in general.
Liberal Arts education is beneficial in this aspect, offering choices and allowing exploration, to discover what fields children excel at and demonstrate superiority. Some children are better at writing, better at math, better at art, better at science, etc. than others.
When it comes to morality, responnsibility, autonomy in life, a general ‘humanitarian’ education is best. Children must learn to interact with each-other while young, rather than learn as adults, when it can be too late to change behaviors and attitudes. The strength of a society exists in its moral fiber and character, the ways in which a population cooperates among itself, and competes against an exterior society. Some cultures are more dominant, sophisticated, and “higher class” than others. Class, in terms of morality, implies noble distinctions. Some people are more trustworthy, accountable, reasoned, and wiser than others.
These would be society or humanity’s “leaders”, heroes, legends, those who aspire the rest of humanity. While an average person may never become self-responsible beyond a certain point, a rarer type and mentality can. It’s a type of spiritual strength and identity. Religion and church appeal to average people seeking morality and leadership. It has to do with a “higher calling” in life.
To simplify all of this into a point,
A few, rarer individuals can and will become much more responsible, accountable, and moral than everybody else: The Authoritarian. The one who others would pass their own victimhood, blames, and problems onto. It could even be a type of scapegoating. Somebody to “suffer on behalf of everybody else”. Somebody who can handle it all, carry the weight, and burdens of the rest of society.
This is the essence of ‘humanitarianism’ and “what it means to be human”.