Children can pick up all sorts of behaviour from their parents, albeit I have only anecdotal evidence, but:
I have met many, many people of the ages 11 to 12, the majority were intensely curious. In all the cases where they were not curious, their parents (or tutors, etc.) either did not think learning to be a joy, actively discouraged them for curiousity, or scorned them for asking questions (especially about things that were 'unrelated'). In other words, the young people were taught that it was a bad thing to be curious or otherwise learn about things, and especially a bad thing to learn in a non-prescibed way.
> because they have not learned that behaviour
Children can pick up all sorts of behaviour from their parents, albeit I have only anecdotal evidence, but:
I have met many, many people of the ages 11 to 12, the majority were intensely curious. In all the cases where they were not curious, their parents (or tutors, etc.) either did not think learning to be a joy, actively discouraged them for curiousity, or scorned them for asking questions (especially about things that were 'unrelated'). In other words, the young people were taught that it was a bad thing to be curious or otherwise learn about things, and especially a bad thing to learn in a non-prescibed way.