--- Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreyerffoeg(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
Perhaps not, in fact, because the majority of
people in the world
want an unbiased source, and almost everyone knows that education
material is biased. Being banned from schools might actually be to
the project's benefit.
Mff. I go to a school. I want Wikipedia there.
If educational material is biased, all the more reason for an NPOV
Wikipedia available from schools to independently verify the
story given to us from the textbooks. And [[There is no Cabal]]
of teachers intentionally giving us biased facts. I think I'm
missing your logic somehow - could you explain how it would
help the 'pedia if it were banned from schools?
The most effective and deadly weapons are banned from civilian hands
(Armored personnel vehicles, Combat aircraft, heat-guided rocket
launchers, grenades, C-4, full-auto M-16s (the list goes on)), and
they are the ones professionals prefer, because of their
effectiveness in their intended area of use.
Likewise the W, as a comprehensive resource of unbiased, in-depth,
well-referenced and pored over the world over tool of learning and
referencey, would make any entity that is unconfortable with anthing
except their own version of the truth du jour wish to curtail its use
among the more tender member of its society.
I would rather the W become famous among leading geneticists and PHDs
in history than among 9 graders.
I would *like* 9 graders to be able to use it, but not at the expense
of seeming to the rest of the world to be a water-pistol in a world
of precision-guided munition.
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Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com
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