50/50. Withholding knowledge or anything else because you didn’t have easy access to it is small. People didn’t have YouTube tutorials to help them in 1400. Do you think of people had YouTube in 1400 and access for the common person they maybe would have loved to use it and the world might be a far advanced and very different place today…?
Thank said- some things you probably should learn on your own. Depending on your personality and what that thing is, figuring things out or researching them is often a process that in itself has value. Learning to solve problems when you can’t ask someone for answers is an important skill in itself. There are also quite a few things that are subjective or otherwise just.. fluid. Your father might be able to teach you how they hit on girls in their time or how they found a partner to marry/have kids with- but between personality and differences in time periods and cultures- it might be better for you to develop those specific skills on your own.
Many things also come down to style and some people feel that developing your own style is important and that teaching might influence your development and imprint their style onto you. So it can be complicated. Overall it is generally the case that we can offer some help, even if just fundamentals or trying to identify the things a person lacks to get to a basic level where they should be able to start figuring out on their own. So I’m general wether you had to learn on your own or not that shouldn’t be the deciding factor in wether someone else should have to. There often are points in our development where the best thing is to have to struggle a little to get to a next phase by ourselves but we generally have phases where we need or can really use some guidance.
Thank said- some things you probably should learn on your own. Depending on your personality and what that thing is, figuring things out or researching them is often a process that in itself has value. Learning to solve problems when you can’t ask someone for answers is an important skill in itself. There are also quite a few things that are subjective or otherwise just.. fluid. Your father might be able to teach you how they hit on girls in their time or how they found a partner to marry/have kids with- but between personality and differences in time periods and cultures- it might be better for you to develop those specific skills on your own.