I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

The speaker imagines a child’s education as an apprenticeship in wonder. The “underside of a glass-bottom boat” suggests seeing the world from an unusual angle—protected yet immersed—while the “microscope at the galaxies” fuses the very small and the very vast to argue that imagination can collapse scales and reveal hidden complexity. By locating “galaxies” on “the pinpoint of a human mind,” the line elevates inner life—curiosity, empathy, creativity—as a universe worth exploring. The quote ultimately frames parenting (or mentorship) as cultivating perception: teaching someone not merely to look, but to look differently, with awe and attentiveness.