As I said, there are good teachers out there. And with over a decade in the media as a journalist and an editor I interviewed both types across the spectrum. I also personally know a couple that left the field because of that and things every bit as asinine.
When you have a science department that teaches global warming is real, then that’s not science. When you are allowed to google answers, education does not take place. Whether it’s in an elective or the hard ‘sciences’.
A biologist or chemist has no technical basis for understanding that issue. Hence they are as dependent upon authority as anyone else. That is more a k-12 and lower division undergrad problem than it is a creature of graduate education.
When you are allowed to google answers, education does not take place.
Nonsense. Once one has access to data, qualification then depends upon what one can do with what one finds. With more information available, one has the option of asking questions that rely more upon synthetic ability to stitch facts into useful applications, which then demands full comprehension of said supporting analytical facts. Where do you get these blandishments?