Life adjustment,' not wisdom or learning, was to be the goal of education. Mac Donald dismisses such self-indulgent drivel. The notion that one can teach . . . Students need to learn something to learn how to learn at all. The claim that prior knowledge is superfluous because one can always look it up, preferably on the Internet, is equally senseless.
Effective research depends on preexisting knowledge.
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