[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board resolution commissioning study and recommendations

[Thomas Dalton]

On 24 June 2010 20:13, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> If education is learning about the world, there is essentially nothing
> that can not be considered as having at least  potential educational
> value.  There are of course different degrees of educational value,
> but using it by itself as a criterion is much too simplistic.  (In the
> context of pornography, we've separated out recreation from education,
> but I don't see how any imaginative form of expression has a clear
> line between the two).

I guess it depends on what the *primary* purpose is. Pornography does
educate, but its primary purpose is to entertain. Similarly, political
and commercial propaganda/marketing does educate, but its primary
purpose is to get votes/sales.