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SHARE THE LOVE: GREEDY IS NEEDY

KNOWING IS GROWING: GROW UP OR BLOW UPIn Kindergarten, and often before, children are taught to

share: share toys, feelings, food, clothes, and more. And when the imperative “mine” creeps into a child’s lexicon, parents and/or teachers often reprimand this behavior.

In higher education, the tendency is to covet and/or privatize materials and research; we publish in and prescribe to elite academic journals, or we perish. We are not facing a scarcity of materials or critical ideas, but a scarcity of human ethos in an increasingly narrow-minded “mine,” in which scholars confuse privilege with purpose.

MARIA POPOVA ON COMBINATORIAL CREATIVITY: HTTP://WWW.BRAINPICKINGS.ORG

SOME SELL: OTHERS BUY: SOME OTHERS GIFT“The more I learn, the less I know” has been

said uncountable times and appropriated to Socrates just as often as others, in various forms. “Knowledge is the greatest good, and ignorance is the greatest evil” is another line pinned on Socrates.

Those who possess a fraction of good would freely gift what isn’t ours anyway to others, right? Knowledge hoarding seems to be the greatest ignorance.