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the only thing that multiplies when you give it away instead of shrinking
means The understanding, facts, skills, and awareness a person has gained through learning or experience.
from From Middle English 'knowleche,' built from the verb 'knowen' (to know) plus a suffix '-leche' that signaled a state or condition — the same kind of ending that survives, transformed, in '-ledge.' The 'know' part traces back to Old English 'cnāwan,' a deep Germanic root with cousins across the Indo-European family — related to Latin 'gnoscere' and Greek 'gignōskein,' both meaning to know or recognize, which is why English also carries borrowings like 'cognition' and 'diagnosis.'
- library origin
- Library of Alexandria copied every ship's books on arrival
- forgetting curve
- You lose half of new facts within an hour
- oldest school
- Morocco's University of al-Qarawiyyin runs since 859 AD
- brain trick
- Teaching something cements it better than restudying it
alexandria library — held an estimated 700,000 scrolls in ancient egypt, largest collection of antiquity
british museum — 6.8 million objects spanning human history, established 1753 in london
wikipedia — 6.7 million english articles created by volunteers since 2001
human genome project — mapped all 3 billion base pairs of human dna, completed 2003