On Jul 16, 11:08=A0am, Penny Gaines <pe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Beliavsky wrote:
> > When I was a kid about 30 years ago my parents bought for me the World
> > Book set of encyclopedias. It was fairly common for the families we
> > knew. I used to just browse volumes of the encyclopedia sometimes.
> > What do people think now about making such an investment, where there
> > are alternatives such as Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias (for
> > a fee).
>
> My children tend to go straight to google (and then get frustrated when
> they can't find what they want). =A0This appears to be encouraged by
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> schools.
>
> We do have an extensive collection of textbooks and encyclopedias, but
> they don't seem to turn to them in the same way as I did when I was a
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> > Steve Sailer wrote an essay comparing Wikipedia and Brittanica
> >http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/07/real-problem-with-wikipedia.html,
> > asserting the former is dull.
>
> Hmmm, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but Beliavsky, you are
> allowed to have your own opinions, without backing them up with some
> blogger or journalist :-) . =A0
I know.
> You do have a tendancy to rely on other people's ideas: I'd like to know
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what *you* think about an issue.
My choices of sources *do* reflect what I think about various issues.
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