The humans hunger for knowledge is like a bird of prey's drive to hunt and kill.
However, if one feeds a bird of prey food it doesn't want when its not hungry, when you finally let it loose, it will starve to death; its instinct having been destroyed.
Our children, who at the age of 5 ask approximately 300 questions a day and who want to know everything about everything, are then sent to school.
At school they are then force fed knowledge they don't...