We must not overplay our emphasis on the value of pure theory and abstract imagining to the development of the individuator. Almost as significant is how these theories will play out when tested and implemented in everyday life.
The revolutionary, the uncompromising ideologue, the straining idealist--all live in this world of pure theory. Accessing that magnificent world overmuch leads leads to their being disconnected from people and the saving grace of hesitancy and caution.
They need rich, varied, plentiful worldly experience in testing their ideas in the material realm. It forces them to slow down, to compromise, to go back to the drawing board. Bringing the world of ideals to the natural world and mingling theory with the application of these ideas in common, routine reality, it benefits all.
Wisdom and insight come from observing pet theories crash and burn before one's very eyes. He who has failed and returns to the drawing board becomes the superior theorist. The theorist, that is handy and able to do anything with his hands, will have many non-stale source of new ideas when he reverts to theorizing. To compare and to contrast is to grow and wonder.
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