Doesn't holistic approach just make sense?
It's not like you learned to speak with your parents reading you the dictionary beginning with the letter A.
It's not like you learned to speak with your parents reading you the dictionary beginning with the letter A.
Some do, some don't.
jQuery is a common way to learn to do front end programming. It saves a lot of time when used well. But it is important to extend the knowledge to core javascript and be able to write code when jQuery is not available (like when writing scripts to embed on different sites).