alt Hacker NewsI think this is about teaching problem solving at a young age and it is an abomination that our education system does so poorly at. The key is to know what kind of questions to ask and knowing when to go deeper and what to pay attention to.
But that is not how our education system aligns us. One typical example of problem solving kids, and I too, learn in school is how to apply a concept in physics to a free-body-diagram(Indian and Chinese education cram schools are famously good at teaching kids how to do this, the usefulness of which I debate). But it all stops at the exam room. No architect or jr structural engineer position for you kiddo.
Another kind of problem solving skill might be how to invest money and understand your own risk appetite to construct portfolios to manage your money. All that is taught in school is a dry compound interest formulae, time discounted cash flows and a black scholes model. Only to find out later I don't need most of it to manage my money.
It's also my opinion that Kids should get to do a lot of real work and experimentation at an early age(13 yo IMO) with real responsibilities and prospects of making income. Knowing the failure mode of most real world problems you can solve is the skill you always want but dont nearly get to do enough of until much later in life(sadly true for a large population of kids in the world).