Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-25319479-20171206103000/@comment-734582-20171209082329

Skylent wrote: Like, Sarada seems to be almost as good and I don't understand how the hell so many kids can perform such complex jutsus with nature transformation while they didn't even graduate yet. That's ok for Iwabe as he is older but... Do realize that for most of Shinobi history, teaching was done within clans (meaning clan jutsu were mostly passed down, and mostly within families). With the Village System there was a general education, but judging by early part 1, that sucked. Sakura graduated on the Clone Jutsu, which she used once and it was instantly useless. We even saw that the girls had flower picking classes, something that never ever ever came up again because Kishimoto realized himself just how monumentally stupid it was.

Boruto's era is what the world looks like if you give kids proper ninja educations. We saw them spar seriously (not just taijutsu), we saw them perform various ninjutsu as a curriculum (e.g. Summoning), we saw them do actual math and physics.

On the other hand, we shouldn't understate Village/Clan era teaching. Sasuke was throwing fireballs at like 5 or so. Neji knew several advanced techniques already. several of the K12 were noted to be either lazy or undertrained (former: Shikamaru, Choji. Latter: Naruto, Sasuke). Neji had to figure out all the clan jutsu by himself.