There are a lot of people walking about as absent-minded professors teaching people for free everything that they have without even knowing this.
Its a bit frustrating because those very same people that we teach, they will conceal information, withhold information, or charge a lot for any piece of information to us.
There was a time when we did this with awareness. The ancient universities of Timbuktu attests to that. But I guess one can only say thank you so many times before jealousy and hatred sets in. This is a lesson we MUST eventually learn.
Mansa Musa did us no favor going around the world lavishly showing off his wealth. Humility has its virtue.
In fact, humility is so great, it's like an emotional spine alignment -- it aligns many of the other virtues (diligence, modesty, kindness, and so on).
In recent news I read about a Masai boy who figured out a way to take parts of his mother's radio and turn it into a flashing light to chase away the lions. Ingenious!! He was only 10. He was "awarded" by being taken to MIT -- get this.. -- to "learn."
Good for him. But I wouldn't be surprised if suddenly MIT comes out with new ideas and take full credit for them.
I also heard of a different African boy who figured out how to make a generator out of scraps from a junk yard. Ingenious!! He, too, was accepted into learning electrical engineering at an American school. Again, I wouldn't be surprised if he, again, was the absent-minded professor.
Not so recently was this nurse who cared for her relatives with HIV. She took such great care of them that she kept them a love for a very long time. Everyone was amazed and of course gave her a scholarship to go and "learn" at a nursing school.
Now, I'm not saying they shouldn't go and learn more or that people shouldn't exchange knowledge. but I am saying that the false pretense that they want to give and we only take narrataive is tiresome and no longer believed anymore.
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There was a time when we did this with awareness. The ancient universities of Timbuktu attests to that. But I guess one can only say thank you so many times before jealousy and hatred sets in. This is a lesson we MUST eventually learn.
Mansa Musa did us no favor going around the world lavishly showing off his wealth. Humility has its virtue.
In fact, humility is so great, it's like an emotional spine alignment -- it aligns many of the other virtues (diligence, modesty, kindness, and so on).
In recent news I read about a Masai boy who figured out a way to take parts of his mother's radio and turn it into a flashing light to chase away the lions. Ingenious!! He was only 10. He was "awarded" by being taken to MIT -- get this.. -- to "learn."
Good for him. But I wouldn't be surprised if suddenly MIT comes out with new ideas and take full credit for them.
I also heard of a different African boy who figured out how to make a generator out of scraps from a junk yard. Ingenious!! He, too, was accepted into learning electrical engineering at an American school. Again, I wouldn't be surprised if he, again, was the absent-minded professor.Not so recently was this nurse who cared for her relatives with HIV. She took such great care of them that she kept them a love for a very long time. Everyone was amazed and of course gave her a scholarship to go and "learn" at a nursing school.
Now, I'm not saying they shouldn't go and learn more or that people shouldn't exchange knowledge. but I am saying that the false pretense that they want to give and we only take narrataive is tiresome and no longer believed anymore.
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