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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Well, that makes you a bad teacher, who is part of the problem and not part of the solution. No text is a "reliable source of information", and you need to be teaching people critical thinking skills and how to apply what they've learned, not simply regurgitate it was gospel.
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How exactly does telling a group of students that Wikipedia isn't reliable for quoting or citing make someone a bad teacher? All the teachers that I know tell their students exactly the same thing.
I also don't see where thibaulthalpern makes the claim that there are reliable sources that should be just believed without using any backup sources either. There's no reference in the post to regurgitating read info too. I'm sure any good teacher teaches critical thinking.
To call someone a bad teacher and accuse them of being part of the problem just because they understand the problems of citing from wikipedia (an opinion that is fully justified) is awfully judgmental and could easily be seen as offensive.