When I was very young I was also very curious, but I sated my curiosity by telling myself that I would know it all when I was grown up. It wasn’t my problem to be curious about these things, other people were handling them. Maybe Eliezer’s classmates were thinking that this didn’t really make sense, but they trusted the adults enough to do it anyways. Like how a lit lightbulb turns less mysterious and wonderful when you know that someone else already knows the scientific reason for it. All you need to do is follow the instructions and you’ll get light.
When I was very young I was also very curious, but I sated my curiosity by telling myself that I would know it all when I was grown up. It wasn’t my problem to be curious about these things, other people were handling them. Maybe Eliezer’s classmates were thinking that this didn’t really make sense, but they trusted the adults enough to do it anyways. Like how a lit lightbulb turns less mysterious and wonderful when you know that someone else already knows the scientific reason for it. All you need to do is follow the instructions and you’ll get light.