Pre-chewed information.
More often than not, pupils don't have to know how to distinguish between accurate
and inaccurate information. Their teachers and their textbooks, and their school
libraries, are continually busy filtering out undesirable information so that
the pupils themselves don't encounter it, and don't have to develop such a skill.
Information within a school framework is ordinarily available to pupils in an
almost sterile environment - no germs of doubt or confusion can get in. And in
the end, perhaps it's no surprise that adult web searchers are satisfied with
the first results they find - they've learned to assume that what they're being
served is palatable, or at least good for them.
Go to: Don't take my word for it, or
Go to: Equal in the eyes of cyberspace.