“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.“—Jacob Bronowski
It’s not just staying curious that’s important, but also the way in which we turn up with that curiosity.
A ‘ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence’ implies a willingness to wrestle in the mud, to embrace the mess, and lean into the the struggle.
There’ll always been a chance to synthesise, simplify, and polish later.