Counterpoint: A lot of people legitimately don’t know how to find out shit on their own and their learning style is rooted in having teachers and tutors help them along to understanding. Needing someone to teach them how to find out shit on their own might legitimately be part of the path that they need help with. If you genuinely don’t understand which sources are valuable or how to form the question into a search engine, doing it yourself may not be illuminating at all. Some people don’t grow from “reading the fucking manual” because it’s all too beyond their basic understanding for it to be valuable to them.
I think people take for granted that finding solutions on the internet is absolutely a learned skill.
Counterpoint: A lot of people legitimately don’t know how to find out shit on their own and their learning style is rooted in having teachers and tutors help them along to understanding. Needing someone to teach them how to find out shit on their own might legitimately be part of the path that they need help with. If you genuinely don’t understand which sources are valuable or how to form the question into a search engine, doing it yourself may not be illuminating at all. Some people don’t grow from “reading the fucking manual” because it’s all too beyond their basic understanding for it to be valuable to them.
I think people take for granted that finding solutions on the internet is absolutely a learned skill.
Especially these days, when disinformation is freely accessible, and facts are behind paywalls.
I can find a million conflicting articles about what a study says, or I can pay out the nose for access to the actual study, for example.