Great Asimov quote . . .

[AlbertCat]

25. "Everybody can be great. Because everybody can serve.

Serve what... baloney for lunch?

To serve WELL, you need to know what you are doing. And therefore you need to NOT be ignorant of what to do to serve well.

" You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve."
No not to serve a tennis ball. But to serve well as an editor or writer and to communicate clearly, you do. (they all do in your quote)

"You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. "

You don't to serve as a housekeeper, but as a scientist you do.

Of course to serve a tennis ball well, you need to not be ignorant of tennis and how to play it. To serve well as a housekeeper, you need to not be ignorant of that subject.

"to serve" is a vague term in your feel good platitude.... a platitude engineered to make the ignorant proud of their ignorance by someone NOT ignorant of how to manipulate words and rhetoric.

Do you think "West Side Story" and "The Velveteen Rabbit" were created by people ignorant, and not knowledgeable about their disciplines?