tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post1374818480565219329..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Edu-SpeakYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-57943409817651301752009-02-25T04:43:00.000+02:002009-02-25T04:43:00.000+02:00I guess the point is that you will hardly achieve ...I guess the point is that you will hardly achieve "lots of knowledge" without "knowing how to find stuff", and to classify the stuff you have found is at least very difficult if you do not have lots of knowledge already. <BR/><BR/>Judith<BR/>(who has volunteered for years as a tutor for "underprivileged" children but still is regularly astonished about the degree of ignorance taught in modern school. The astonishment is only topped by that about the high marks students get who cannot even grasp their textbooks.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-54016841139775321702009-02-25T01:43:00.000+02:002009-02-25T01:43:00.000+02:00if you come here solely for the Guardian-bashingYa...<I>if you come here solely for the Guardian-bashing</I><BR/><BR/>Yaacov, don't denigrate Guardian-bashing.<BR/><BR/>The Beeb and the Guardian are mortal enemies of Israel nad of the Jews, harmful to Israel's reputation and to her surivival, alleged by some to be witting or unwitting instigators of anti-semitic violence. Bashing the Beeb and the Guardian is a patriotic act on your part, and you have often done that job well.<BR/><BR/>Please keep up your excellent work!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-53642283857192187462009-02-24T14:39:00.000+02:002009-02-24T14:39:00.000+02:00Why does there have to be a choice between those t...Why does there have to be a choice between those two strategies? What's wrong with knowing how to upholster knowledge on the web? and even if Wikipedia is inaccurate or hard to understand as a rule I find there a bunch of links which will answer my questions.<BR/>Learning how to use dictionaries way back in school has proved to be a wonderful preparation for successfully googling for for example texts of out of print books on the web, for finding the context of wild quotes being thrown at me by elquent columnists and so on - in short it has given me access to a broader scope of sources and informations than a small town library and book shop ever could have.<BR/>rgds,<BR/>SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com