There is a serious attention paid to the issue that whether knowledge is a burden rather than a benefit. To all intents and purposes, there are various opinions on the issue. In my narrow perspective, knowledge is just irrelevant, if there's no knowledge, there will be no chance for us to make the world a better place.
In the first place, knowledge is the base for all our enormous inventions, despite the legends such as the electricity or the telescope to the tiny things in life like the quick note or the zip used in clothes. From the ancient time, human being knew how to use fire to warm, preserve food as well as protecting themselves from big dangerous animal of the old world. How did they know it? Because people had found that the good taste of meat could last longer provided that they are cooked on fire and the big animals usually afraid of light in the darkness. In our modern societies, people know exactly the taste of almost every ingredients, and then put them together in a perfect recipe. Without Mozzarella, pizza can't become a good pizza.
Another good point worth making is that knowledge, in many fashions, has liberated us from hunger, disease, and tedious labor. There have been so far a numerous inventions published in every aspects of life, from medicine, agriculture to education and industry. So many kinds of medicine have been found to treat patients for the purpose of preventing disease from attacking people. For instance, Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because
they are the first drugs that were effective against many previously serious diseases such as syphilis and infections caused by staphylococci and streptococci. With computers, we can easily build many automatic factories which reduce many tasks requiring people and cut down the money spent on manufacturing. It is as well plausible to say that knowledge is more often than not supposed to be a extremely helpful friend when