How bad is your googling habit and what does it mean?

Closer doesn't necessarily give you a better view. You can't see the forest for the trees, as they say. Ah, but roots have roots and those roots have roots and those roots have roots.... Don't jump into the middle of history and pretend that what you remember is the beginning of all.-------------As for Google, a wider variety of information should make us more selective, but does it?When we eat at a restuarant with forty items on the menu, we don't just pick the first one. The Google buffet might have forty million items, so it isn't practical to consider them all - but we should still make an effort to sample more than the specials that Google recommends.

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As I said, The Source™ - of "juvenile delinquency", for example - goes back millennia, not decades. Effectively, you're no closer to the source than anybody else.Here's what I Googled:

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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless
beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and
impatient of restraint.
--- Hesiod, Eighth Century B.C.

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"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of
today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for
parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as
if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is
foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest
and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
--- Peter the Hermit, 1274

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Very good. You might not be completely beyond hope after all. Exactly.

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A computer doesn't know how to play chess any more than a Model A knows how to get to Paris. They just accept inputs and follow instructions.

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No. A human programming another human makes no more sense than a Model A driving another model A.The human psyche is a complex combination of inputs from a vast number of sources. The most you could hope for is to influence the child in the general direction of the "desired output". That's "Eh, Canuck?"

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Happens all the time. Can't happen because humans aren't programable. Teaching is not programming.Programming is strictly a one-way street - human/machine, master/slave, driver/vehicle. Teaching is two-way. Teachers have to learn before they can teach. Teachers learn by teaching. It's windy today (and Google didn't program me to say that).

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Learning the multiplication tables is just storage - assignment to an array.Learning how to do mathematics is another thing entirely - learning how to apply one set of data (multiplication table) to another set of data (problem) to come up with a third set of data (solution). Computer operation is iterational. Computer programming isn't.

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My terminology is probably off. Certainly, the machine executes instructions iteratively and programs often perform iterations.I understood (or possibly misunderstood) Hoot Mon to suggest that the act of writing programs is iterative.When I talk about "programming a computer", I mean writing the programs, not just loading them and executing them. By analogy, "programming a child" would involve devising a particular set of instructions that the child would always follow to get the desired output.While it's possible to produce a kind of "Pavlov" response to certain inputs, I'd hardly call that programming.

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That isn't really iteration though, is it? It isn't doing the same thing over and over again. It's doing different things in the same place. The whole "iteration" thing is fairly irrelevant, I think. My point was more that a programmer gives instructions which the computer follows to the letter. A teacher, on the other hand, passes on information (and information on how to deal with information) - not a prescribed, stepwise process.A computer can only do exactly what it's told. Garbage in, garbage out. But if a teacher does a good job, the student will say, "Hey, wait a minute. This is garbage."(I appreciate the nit-picking. It made more sense the first time I said it - which is probably not a good sign. )

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