Against the backdrop of the space race taking place throughout the developed world, I thought of one question: How can one strive to conquer the universe if astronomy is removed from the school curriculum as a compulsory subject? By the way, I found this out recently and I didn't believe it for a long time. Only a narrow-minded person, to say the least, could have excluded the most important discipline from the school curriculum, but now it turns out that not only astronomy is missing, but also painting. To raise a consumer, astronomy is probably not needed, just like history, literature, world artistic culture, philosophy, but if you want to raise a creative person, then the approach must be completely different. Do not show a person the stars, do not study philosophy and the basics of world artistic culture, so do not be surprised by the growing number of idiots, you raised them with your own hands. "Adult Ada. ".