i believe teaching a young child how to draw will restrain their progress in the future.

children are impressionable meaning usually rules that are put in place by an authority makes those rules absolute which usually need reinforcement from negative repercussions however these repercussions don't always come in the form of punishment.

you tell a kid how to draw a head correctly and now the kid only draws heads in the way they are told to and tells others to draw heads like that too because that rule is now absolute. they draw the head in that way because it looks "good" and the negative repercussion is it looking "bad" however when you give the kid an understanding of there being a good kind of art and a bad, then at what point does art start becoming a task than a passion? the kid will follow the rule because they are told to, but not because they understand why the rule exists.

and what if the advice given is incorrect? the kid grows up with the habit of following the wrong kind of advice as the rules given to us as kids follow us to adulthood. kids believe in the absoluteness of rules because it's simply a way to navigate and understand the world. the understanding of rules being absolute deconstruct when you're older but damage is still dealt figuring out something you understood as "normal" was what held you back from exploration.

i believe the only criticism that a kid doing art should receive is just more encouragement for experimentation. "draw something else" "try out this medium instead" allows for more exploration of arts and can make the kid more passionate when given all of this freedom.

this is just my opinion though, i'm interested to hear what other people think about this though