• Allero@lemmy.today
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    For a few reasons, actually.

    Personally, I just love to give to people, and knowledge is a sort of thing you can give that doesn’t even take anything from you. The kind of look in people’s eyes when everything just clicks is precious, and kids show it more openly than others.

    Professionally, I’m a junior scientist, and, being a teacher’s kid, I was always grown in the atmosphere of deep respect for knowledge and education. And I want to carry these values forward.

    Globally, I appreciate the power of knowledge and believe we’ll all be much better off if everyone’s questions could be honestly answered. And people don’t appreciate enough how many harmful and wrong ideas people carry from childhood.

    So, in short, the questions don’t come from nothing, they highlight gaps of knowledge and understanding. Filling them with honest and accessible knowledge is both satisfying and awesome for the future of humanity.

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        3 hours ago

        Globally speaking, it’s awareness of the state of the world and everything in it.

        But I don’t think most people need a definition.

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              He’s trying to show you how kids sometimes ask questions - it can often be a neverending list of follow up questions. The most basic version is a kid asking over and over “but why?” to every response when really they aren’t taking in your responses to begin with.

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        3 hours ago

        Yeah, humans lose such comprehension in this day and age. Kinda my goal to revert it!