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That's cute, he thinks a student in today's world can be successful without the Internet.

• Jtsummers 11y ago
  Why not? Assuming access to books (library, bookstores) and journals via a library (should be present in most schools or within a school district, decent libraries in my rather small town), a student would be in the same situation as most pre-2000 students, many of whom succeeded just fine.
  • scott_s 11y ago
    Plenty of students got an education before we assumed everyone had a computer, too. But the environment surrounding the student, including the infrastructure they must interact with as a necessary part of being a student, has changed. At the least, such a student will be at a disadvantage.
  • tomrod 11y ago
    Pre-2000 students had access to card catalogs within the library. Most libraries nowadays use the Internet to support their many locations' cataglogs.
    • nazgob 11y ago
      Never seen a library without a computer onsite. Most of the time you can use it only to search for books etc.
      • tomrod 11y ago
        Agreed. Most library systems I've come across have their catalog servers located elsewhere, except for very small community libraries. (Granted, this is the worst type of data: anecdata).