Lifelong learning: Ubuntu

Recently, I was told a story about an anthropologist who went to Africa to study the social behavior of tribes.

One day, he proposed a game to some of the tribal children. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids to stand many yards away. Then he told them that upon his signal the kids could race to the tree and whoever got to the basket first would win all the contents of the basket. He signaled for them to go but instead of racing against each other they all grabbed hands and ran together, reaching the basket at the same time. At this point, the children sat in a circl...