The Talmud discusses the obligation to study Torah.

To what extent, with regard to the generational range and the scope of the material, is a person obligated to teach his son Torah? Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: One should emulate the education of, for example, Zevulun ben Dan, whose father’s father taught him Bible, Mishna, Talmud, halakhot, and aggadot.