Agreed in principle, but you're never going to substantially remove distractions from children, because school doesn't control them at home (nor should it) and most parents are too busy to be involved (DIWK).

They're going to be bathed in the omnipresent social environment radiation for a large portion of their time.

And they're going to form part of their self image and life goals from that.

Better to make it as positive as we can. Or at least prevent it from being explicitly anti-intellectual.