• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah but like, quite literally my library had encyclopedias that were just wrong. Like I knew then they were wrong. Its wasn’t a good thing.

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      …then you knew what to ask for follow-up literature to review, yeah? That’s part of learning, and exactly what I’m talking about. Learning how to critically evaluate information and seek further enriching content to gain a better understanding of the thing you are researching is a crucial skill.

      Edit: ok, downvote me, but are you doing that because you don’t like that you grew to learn critical thinking, or are you doing it because you didn’t learn critical thinking? You knew the encyclopedia was wrong. How? Because of the dearth of knowledge available to you? Lol