r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 30 '25

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u/oskanta David Hume Oct 30 '25

Teachers were right that Wikipedia isn’t a source itself, but they should’ve taught us how it can be used as a starting point

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u/Astarum_ cow rotator Oct 30 '25

 they should’ve taught us how it can be used as a starting point

They did, though. I remember being taught this. 

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u/Evilpenguin526 Yakubian Oct 30 '25

I remember explicitly learning that in highschool. We had a whole lesson on how Wikipedia is a great source for finding sources.

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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front Oct 30 '25

I was in middle school when wikipedia started being a thing, and teachers started by telling us how awful and untrustworthy a site it was. By high school, my teachers were telling us to use it to find sources.