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A great quote from an article I read on HN recently > Suppose I was an evil person and wanted to eliminate the curiosity of children. Give the kid a diet of Go
by ambicapter 4y ago
A great quote from an article I read on HN recently
> Suppose I was an evil person and wanted to eliminate the curiosity of children. Give the kid a diet of Google, and pretty soon the child learns that every question he has is answered instantly. The coolest thing about being human is to learn, but you don’t learn things by looking it up; you learn by figuring it out.
- moffkalast 4y agoAs opposed to the thing we did before, which is when kids asked something they were told something that's wrong and told to "stop talking back" and "go to your room". I think this is still an improvement.
- ambicapter 4y ago> As opposed to the thing we did before, which is when kids asked something they were told something that's wrong and told to "stop talking back" and "go to your room" Not everyone had your childhood.
- moffkalast 4y agoNot everyone, but lots of people.
- JohnMakin 4y agoThis is silly. You could extrapolate the same argument to use against Libraries.
- sorokod 4y agoNot silly, it's a quantity into quality thing.
- Dalewyn 4y agoMost of the people here know and understand computers because we had to tear everything apart and figure out how everything worked just so we could play some video games. Contrast kids of today who can just go and play video games, no disecting of computers required. Naturally, most of them don't understand or appreciate computers as anything more than just another appliance.
- jraph 4y agoDo you have concrete examples of stuff you figure out instead of looking it up? I'm not going to figure out the population of the Liechtenstein, I'm going to look it up.