Does it devalue the learning experience, and the understanding of concepts in a students work?
SG: That is true. Graduates that come to me, don’t have an idea. For me, that’s down to their lack of practical experience. But, I always used to assume that being a graduate meant that there was some sort of intellectual rigour about you. But, a lot of people that come out… they’re vacant. They have learnt to churn out information like their minds are machines. We don’t know how to learn. But, we are debasing the access to information. There’s a slackness and a laziness. The reality is that we are facing is that I’m 26 years old, and use Wikipedia to find out about most things. If Wikipedia is wrong, then I’m wrong, but we have come to accept a certain degree of error. We have come to accept that we are happy to have this information quickly, and accept that it might be erroneous, rather than spending longer to find information that is 100% reliable – although it’s someone’s account. We are going to get more of that – fast food, fast information. It’s not nutritious, it doesn’t have
