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88 Post author: Academian 19 November 2010 01:53AM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 19 November 2010 07:46:52PM *  19 points [-]

If they can't stop students from using Wikipedia, pretty soon schools will be reduced from teaching how to gather facts, to teaching how to think!

Comment author: jwdink 20 November 2010 10:36:33PM *  1 point [-]

If they can't stop students from using Wikipedia, pretty soon schools will be reduced from teaching how to gather facts, to teaching how to think!

This is what kind of rubs me the wrong way about the above "idea selection" point. Is the implication here that the only utility of working through Hume or Kant's original text is to cull the "correct" facts from the chaff? Seems like working through the text could be good for other reasons.