I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Yes! I love to explore…that’s why I love the internet. Sure you have to be careful in finding reliable material, just as you have to have sense in reading books. One of my favorite teachers in high school once spouted a piece of nonsense and said,
It must be true, I read it in a book!
Oh, yeah…an aha moment. It pointed out I was guilty of believing that all books were sources of knowledge…let the reader beware. Well done, Mr. Webster!
Again, hurray for all the information available on the internet. And hurray for our ability to think.
November 5, 2020
ditto!
“. . . that’s why I love the internet. ”
it to me is one of the modern wonders of the world!
Yes! It’s a blessing.
I marvel at the ability to have so much information at our fingertips. How did we ever manage back before the internet. To think we would have to wait until the library was open to go research something.
And the research was so much harder to do… often we didn’t bother.
While I enjoy the merits of the internet, I also found value in looking things up in my Encylopedia collection as a child. I also enjoyed visits to the library and locating just the right book with the help of the card catalog. I even found pleasure in looking on the signature card at the names of all people who had checked out a library book before I did.
I too have fond memories of that. 🙂
I find I use the ‘net daily of course, but common sense as we do research helps knowing what to store in our minds for use in the future.
And it doesn’t always have to be useful, sometimes it’s just fun facts.
We need more critical thinking – what seems to be in short supply right now.
It always has been, IMHO.
My husband who never touches the internet is constantly saying ask Google whatever the question is. I spend half my time looking up things that he wants to know about. He’ll say ask Google when the next race is and what channel it’s on. The Internet is a wonderful marvelous place it is also addictive and we have to be really careful not to let it take over our lives. I do love the ability to research and if I were going to school in this day and time and thinking of what I wanted to be I would like to be a cyber Detective
You would be a good one!
Sharpness counts!!!
Especially in information gathering!!!
Use our brains!
And our Inner gut feeling at times. It can prod us, to re-consider certain “facts.” Like it can do so many things, for us.
Me tooooo!!!! I love to dig, dig, dig at a topic!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
🙂
I so love the internet, too…before that it was libraries. I so loved it when we began being able to get on line and look up subjects at the library….to see if they had this or that book. Now, I seldom go to the actual library…partly because I have so much on the internet, but also since I broke my foot I hate being on concrete for very long.
Before COVID we could put in requests for books we wanted and they would tell us when they were available. They would put them on a shelf, marked for us, so we could come in and pick them up.
I’ve only used it once, but now we can order what we want, then drive over when they say they are ready… they will bring them out to us.