11-13-2009, 06:05 PM
Hi,
And returning to the Wiki question, yes, I did reference two Wiki articles. Each addresses the properties of the word I used in the link. And both are very accurate. Consider that a practical refutation.
--Pete
Quote:Namely, if children need to write a report on, say WW2, they can go in wikipedia and copy/paste the whole article. Of course schools won't allow this; the child needs to learn to do research for getting his information, not just use his computer skills.The old saw goes: "If you copy from one source, it's plagiarism; if you copy from many, it's research." Thus, your argument logically leads to the abolishment of all sources, since one can plagiarize from any of them. No, the problem is laziness on the parts of the teachers (it takes a lot of work to determine if something is plagiarized) and the attitude that some things need to be hard.
Quote:The same thinsg goes for not using calculators in elementarry school mathematics.....o yes, the answers will be right, but you don't learn anything.If you are talking about learning arithmetic, then I agree with you although many others don't. If you are really speaking of mathematics, then the use of calculators doesn't matter.
And returning to the Wiki question, yes, I did reference two Wiki articles. Each addresses the properties of the word I used in the link. And both are very accurate. Consider that a practical refutation.
--Pete
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