from an essay i wrote a few days back:
Currently, our education system focuses more on the teaching of knowledge. Students need to memorize a large amount of facts. This has been a great idea in the past. But now, with the overwhelming amount of information that we could obtain through the internet the value of this method of education is disputable. Why would students need to memorize the components of a cell or the birthday of Adolf Hitler?
Back before the creation of the printing press, knowledge was extremely hard to come by, it had to be spread through had written works or by word of mouth. However, in this age of mass media and the internet, specific pieces of information are extremely easy to come by. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the chemical structure of Sodium hydroxide, or Adolf Hitler’s death, or even the number of murders committed by Charles Manson, it doesn’t matter. With the internet, you could find it in less than 1 minute anyways.
anyways, i believe that the internet is going to cause fundamental changes in education
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