For the mind does not need filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only needs kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
—Plutarch
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The mission of the Burning Mind Project is to operationalize the gift economy in higher education through the systematic application of the Ten Principles.
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