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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Culture is cultivated, not taught in schools. Likewise, children have to want to cultivate it or it won't really take. [/quote]
Yes! A kid might think something is very cool and want to know more but you won't cultivate fascination and understanding if they find it all "boring". [/quote]

OP here. This is my worry. I know tons of examples when either only one parent is cultured and the kid takes after the other one, or when the environment is just not conducive.
I think my question is - is it even possible (with two divorced more cultured than average parents, and living in an educated but imho uncultured area) to grow up an intellectual? [/quote]

How cultured are YoU? 
What are you doing at home?
Do you have a family book club/reading list?[/quote]

I won’t lie, I have a long way to go to become truly cultured :) 
I do what I can at home.
My worry is that I am only one person. He does get some exposure at his dad’s too (we are divorced) but his dad will never as much as even strongly suggest he reads or watches something worthwhile, and I am honestly running out of energy. 
DS is a pretty typical 13 yo, luckily he loves to read but his reading choices aren’t exactly intellectual for the most part. 
And of course I don’t have American intellectuals flocking to my home on weekends lol
I’d say I am pretty well rounded but it’s hard to be the only person cultivating it in a child![/quote]

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