" Now here on Steemit, it is mostly monetarily driven. However there is a vast and mostly untapped educational system hidden in plain sight. "
Cannot agree more. In the age of digital communication, the scope of something like steemit is endless! The main reason being the monetary benefits involved. Most of us read our daily news, share them, pin them, express opinions on them nowhere else, but online. So if you look at it, this is where knowledge lingers around. It gets generated and redistributed here! And imagine if you could get paid for being knowledgeable! That's exactly what we have before us! Maybe hiding from plain sight! Nevertheless it exists and it will be a shame not to use it to it's full potential.
There is truly an untapped potential here. One lesson all can learn is to be generous, upvoting takes nothing from you, while it benefits others. Yet so few choose to do it... instead they choose only words in comment. To be complete in sync with the Steemit process, both are vital to ones success.