--- Geoffrey Thomas geoffreyerffoeg@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.
===== Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com 818.943.1850 cell http://www.christophermahan.com/
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