Thanks for the history lesson! This Andrew Carnegie is a legend! If I become that rich one day I swear I would run charities like that unfortunately me getting that rich will probably never happen 😅. But I agree with the idea to help people to help themselves. It's like the saying "give a man a fish you feed him for a day, teach him to fish you feed him a lifetime" You can only help people by giving them the means to fend for themselves
That's one of my favorite lines and thanks for sharing it. With hands on Mother Teresa-type work, it doesn't make as much sense, but when a rich person is deciding how best to use money, giving it to charity for pure assistance to people must seem like a bottomless pit. 'Helping people help themselves' (teaching a person to fish) is a more encouraging type of project to fund.
You are welcome! And yes, I strongly believe that education is the best thing a charity can give to people in need. Not only assistance can be just like bottomless pit, but it is in human nature to be ungrateful when things are given and not hard earnt. I am sure you have heard stories about how people on the receiving end (not just donations, but more everyday things as well) are grateful at first but become indifferent as they get used to the treatment/donation/gifts they are receiving and become agitated when that is taken away. Education to make them independent is the the only way to truely help people succeed and not reliant on other people. Only when they feel successful they will actually be happy.