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Subscribe to commentskeithDec 5th 2008 12:36PM
what a crock -
we had the 'internet' when i was in school ; it was called a set of 'encyclopedias' . my parents bought me a set of 'world books' in junior high and i later bought a used set of britannicas for high school and college . maybe the info wasn't instantaneous and 100% up to date and at one's fingertips , but i learned by doing instead of having things done for me .
the spell checker and word processor would have been priceless back in the 60's/70's however !
NatDec 5th 2008 3:51PM
I believe it was some famous physicist that said (paraphrase):
Why should I memorize what I could simply look up?
And that was many years ago.
IanDec 5th 2008 4:21PM
damn right its about time people started thinking this way. I wish my history teachers would start thinking this way.
DarkLightDec 6th 2008 3:33PM
Yeah me too.
Very few people understand...
Internet thinking is not less thinking, it's _different_ thinking