By encouraging kids to post homework questions?
The most valuable skill anyone ever learns in school, and some would argue the ONLY valuable skill you learn, is how to look things up.
Much of what students are spoonfed is wrong. Most will never be useful and nearly all will have been forgotten by the time it would have been useful.
But if you know how to do research, you can learn anything and have it at your fingertips whenever you need it. The internet makes it incredibly easy. No more stuffy libraries, no more Dewey Decimal System, no more thumbing through card files, just a few keywords and BAM, you've got the answer.
Are we doing kids a service by not making them look things up for themselves? Or are we doing would be tyrants a service by making sure kids don't learn to think for themselves?
2007-12-29
03:08:20
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