Volume 6 · The Unfinished Syllabus · Essay 274
Thinking Like an Astronaut
There are ideas that shout. Thinking Like an Astronaut is not one of them. It waits quietly until the day you need it.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
A good librarian is a quiet revolutionary. She knows that a child with a borrowing card and a long afternoon is more dangerous to ignorance than any syllabus.
Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.