On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 05:13:06PM -0400, Tom Parmenter wrote:
You know, my granddaughter is in the sixth grade. You can read plenty at that level. I can read at the "got part of a master's degree" level, but I don't do it every day or all the time. You can also write plenty at that level if you make the effort. It's all in the attitude. Are you writing to teach? Or not?
For what it's worth, what *I* think the aspiration of wikipedia should be is to be a self-contained body of information such that somebody could take themselves from basic literacy and numeracy, through school- and university-level education right up to the state of the art in any field of human endeavour.
An impossible aspiration, almost certainly, but a good thing to *aim* at in my opinion.