If it came down to breadth of vision, Lu Zhou felt that he did not really possess any particularly lofty ambitions.
He had merely come to realize something.
Before the mysteries of the universe, the power of a single person was ultimately insignificant.
For an equation or a conjecture, he could spend a month or even several months shutting himself in a ten-square-meter room and quietly searching for the answer. But systematic scientific projects built from countless problems had long ceased to be tasks that a single scholar—or even a single field of study—could shoulder alone.
Even if he could design the Electric Propulsion System perfectly, he could not perfect every single screw on the engine. Yet someone still had to handle all those indispensable details.
If he wanted to see worlds farther away, he had to rely on the strength of ordinary people.
And as an academic leader, his responsibilities had long ceased to be limited to exploration and discovery. They also included guiding those who came after him, among countless other things.
At the same time, the farther one advanced toward the boundaries of knowledge, the more important the latter became...
Just as Lu Zhou had expected, less than a week after he joined the teaching and research group, the policy for the Youth's Light Class came down from the Ministry of Education.
As a class specifically designed to cultivate academic talent, departments offering the Youth's Light Class would allow students to apply starting in their sophomore year, selecting the top thirty based on GPA rankings.
Lu Zhou was not merely serving as chief consultant in name. He had also offered quite a few valuable suggestions regarding the Youth's Light Class talent development program itself.
No matter how much those suggestions helped, he hoped his experience could offer