Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Greek ministry of education, Wikipedia and the danger of one source

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-03-01]: The Greek Ministry of Education decided to support the use of Wikipedia in the educational and academic community, declaring the year 2011 as the "digital encyclopaedia year" [source: web news]. Any such move should be done while having in mind the fact that the administrators of Wikipedia are specific and - like all people - have specific opinion for all themes. And especially when it comes to philosophical issues, the direction of the encyclopedia is far from "objective". The use of multiple sources is always better. And instead of promoting one source as the best source, it would be better to teach our children how to search themselves for knowledge ... Let's look a little below the first result Google brings to us...

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