In school everything is divided. Civics, the history of the world, literature, art, languages, math, and science are sectioned into different categories. The bell rings out to say, “That’s over . . . ! Now here’s this totally unrelated thing taught by a different person in a different room!” But that felt artificial to me. It was really all one subject, one story: how human beings understand themselves and the universe. And the more connections I could see, the more interested I became in all of it.
