The right question might be: how to expose a kid to many things to pick up what are they into. And how to let them spend as much time on it as possible.

School only worked for me because it forced structure onto my learning. Live lectures rarely engaged me, math and physics aside. So traditional teaching wasn't the draw. What mattered were the guardrails: quarterly exams, a peer group to measure myself against, and a pace that forced me to push past initial boredom until a subject clicked.

Without clear goalposts, external accountability, and support, self paced learning feels like running in a desert. You just end up going in circles. That’s exactly why MOOCs never worked for me, nor for thousands of others.

Learn how to break down a problem when you're stuck.

When I was ~10, I tried to get my TRS-80 (yikes I'm old) to display something like the star wars death star on its primitive graphics. I got pretty far, thanks to the trig examples in the manual. But I was flummoxed that my degree measurements yielded crazy sin/cos results. I felt crushed. Some years later I learned about radians. I often think back how my life trajectory might have been different had I known something simple: how to break problems down.

You should teach your son to be virtuous according to philosophers and the catholic tradition. A virtuous person will do what is right wherever he is

Tell him he should learn how to use his second brain, it has a thousand times more capacity than his first brain

Intelligence will never be scarce. Super Intelligence I meant

This reads like the typical expectant-parent confusion. The big mistake is thinking about a one-way flow of information from the parent to the child.

What really happens is that the infant is the teacher. The parents are reduced to sleep-deprived diaper-changers who serve a tyrant who can't walk or talk. Do that for a while and your priorities and worldview have now been reprogrammed.

The kid grows up a bit and now dad, who was so full of wise lessons, is suddenly watching the kid eat a caramel apple for the first time, or riding a tricycle, or going on a water slide. The dad has nothing to teach, the dad gets to re-learn the joy of simple things.

But like others say, just read to them, play with them, be interested in them as little people...the rest will take care of itself.

I suggest you have them learn a foreign language when young. Particularly Spanish and Chinese.

Kids get addicted to video games and TV. I think you should just set those into Spanish and Chinese. Tell them "play all the video games you want so long as the games are in Spanish or Chinese, you're learning a language".

Other than literacy and Math, I’d say, if you are capable, and is willing, teach them about everything that involves some manual labor.

DIY, homesteading, animal husbandry, electronics repairs, survival skills, cooking, whatever that cannot be easily automated.

Also teach them weapon handling, surveying, map reading, ham radio.

So long as the primary purpose of school is to babysit children while their parents "work" it can never be supplanted by anything educational.

In the list of purposes for education he left out "Daycare for children of working parents".