Are polymathy and general knowledge in decline? | MetaFilter
So attuned was she to the idea that answering quiz questions was a task to be outsourced to the internet that she seemed not to understand the idea of general knowledge that was kept in the head. ..... I'm jealous of school kids today. There were so many times in college I had to wait to ask the professor a question I had about something we read the next day because it was not in our text or getting the information that would make it possible for me to really absorb the ...
