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One of the interesting ideas in some parts of the US homeschooling movement is that kids should spend their first 4-ish years of schooling in heavy memorization mode. Supposedly younger kids really enjoy it, and they may as well load up with good baseline knowledge since they're not going to be producing any interesting analysis of anything.

One of the things I'm grateful for is that my father has numerous books, especially encyclopedias. Even if they were old, I learned so much stuff that I would have not been exposed to or would have the time today to learn. The only real restriction in the house was porn and violence in graphic form.

I was recently reading The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (great book btw), and one of the interesting things was he spent all his after-school hours in the library, for years! (It was a circumstantial thing)

But it's such a great way to get into reading, and feed your child-like curiosity with the best resources.