There is much in what you say Patricia, and we should start far earlier, imparting information to young children, particularly while the brain is at it's most plastic, and a sponge just absorbing information!
What's next Patricia? Information loaded Implants, personal lifelong connectivity, tracking devices?
I mean, perhaps we could be approaching a time, when an answer is provided, by some central information bank, when we just think a question?
Maybe personal implanted connectivity, could allow personally preferred others to read my mind, when and as I allow it?
Perhaps the answer/two way internal communication, would come as both audio and pictorial?
And wouldn't that be a boon for those born blind or deaf or both!?
That said, we simply cannot, should not, overlook the fact that children need playtime/fun-time and adventure time, out in the electronic free, open air, absorbing incredibly important Vitamin D.
Doing childish things like climbing trees, exploring the limits, playing stimulating games which enhance the imagination, catching tadpoles, getting dirty/improving the immune system, socializing; and asking the currently impossible what ifs; that are the very foundation of virtually all human advancement!
Wouldn't that be great Patricia, if it could all be enfolded into affordable, day care, child care, early learning!?
Ever seen one of those magnet loaded tops Patricia, which when spun vigorously, literally hover in thin air!? No strings, wires, mirrors or smoke!
Spin one or two and leave them suspended in the air; in front of Kids, if only to see the wide eyed lights of inquiry in their little brains light up, and indeed; like baking soda volcanoes, demonstrated electrolysis, little exploding Ho2 bubbles; stimulate and encourage an early and enduring interest in science and maths, (how does it work?) long before they ever reach High School!?
And if we could just do that much/fire up the imagination and an enduring interest in how things work Patricia, we'd be setting them and us up, for a far better more rewarding careers, vastly more interesting and happier futures!
What the human mind can conceive and believe, the human mind can conceive!
Rhrosty.

Footnote:
What if a science degree, was a prerequisite to medicine, how much further and faster, could we advance the field of medicine!?
Bionics, bio dynamics, micro biology, genetics etc!?
Rhrosty.

Sorry, that last conceive should read, create!
My mind is so far ahead of my fingers!
Apologies all round.
Rhrosty.

"Diseased English" is the art of saying complete BS in an educated sort of way with lots of flowery words to make people believe that you know what you are talking about. Patricia Edgar seems to be a leading exponent of this art.

Patricia's vested interest is that she is a "children's television producer" and she wants the unfettered right to serve up to our children any politically correct, violence endorsing, homosexuality promoting, and crime glamourising crap, that she sees fit. She does not want mere parents to object to what their children are watching.

Patricia is obviously nervous about the fact that parents everywhere are disgusted at the quality of media programming directed at children, adolescents and young teenagers. One manifestation of this disgust was the "turn off the TV" day in the USA where parents show their continuing displeasure by preventing their children from watching TV for one day a year. Such rebellions by parents can cause heart palpitations among sponsors who pay through the nose to advertise their junky toys and unhealthy foods to children.

Legislators in the USA are coming to realise that parents are angry about the quality of programming dished up by people like Patricia Edgar. While Patricia's peers in the USA are protected under the First Amendment to producing whatever programs damaging to children's welfare that they please, fortunately, we in Australia can still pull Patricia and her friends into line. A people's movement led by concerned parents in organisations such as "Coalition for Quality" and the "Australian Council on Children and the Media" has begun demanding that Patricia and her friends lift their game. All the flowery rhetoric from Patricia will leave them unimpressed.

A look at the newspaper yesterday revealed that the execrable ex TV show "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has been produced as a movie and released in time for the school holidays. Doubtless teachers all over the world will once again be confronted by the sight of small children karate kicking each other all over school playgrounds as they once did when this "children's" show was shown on TV

As we know it today, our world is advancing in technology and children today are influenced by their peers and the idols that they pursue to try to be like. I also feel that the media is taking allot of problems to a period where children are loosing self respect because of the amount of mass changing at a time.
children have the right to be guided from past experienced members of their family tree to get a feel of culture and tradition acceptance other than bulls... brainwashed into there building knowledge and intelligence.
If you have an understanding of what i am trying to explain then please let me know because I too is one of the digital age fellow peer looking for rights.