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Originally Posted by Less
Or perhaps you lack the imagination to use the internet to enhance Your teaching?
Surely now that so much knowledge is at the click of a button, the teaching could be so much more exciting if only you point them in the right direction?
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What i was trying to convey (and perhaps didn't manage) was that the mere accessability of facts does not equal "knowledge" -that is an acquaintance with facts, truths and principles acquired over time through direct experience or the application of study or investigation, it is a state of "knowing". For example we can read about the symptoms of a disease on a web-site, we acquire the facts but that doesn't make us a doctor, in fact our own GP who notes our symptoms then refers us to a specialist in a specific field -his own knowledge being less than that of a Gynaecologist or Oncologist etc. This conviction that it is enough "to just look something up when you need it" is where the error lies, it takes years of experience and study to reach excellence in any field.
That is what I was trying to get at - we live in a "get rich quick"/"have it all society" and that is reflected in the conviction of a lot of young people that school is a waste of time and there's no need to put in more than the minimum effort in anything they do. I am a great believer in education as the answer to many evils -you may have gathered that already, but when society rewards football players, show-girls or X-Factor winners and judges with massive cheques and flaunted luxury lifestyles what can you expect your average teenager to aspire to -excellence or the easy way out?
