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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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Of course no text is a reliable source of information just because it's printed. You're the one making that leap of logic from my statement that I tell my students not to cite Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is never a credible source of information for writing academic papers because we don't know the expertise of the persons writing the entry and it is not easily traceable where certain information in Wikipedia comes from. In addition, one generally doesn't cite a general encyclopedia (which Wikipedia is) for academic writing whether it is printed or not.
By the way, if I'm part of the problem, what "problem" would this be?