so now the issue of virtual education comes up.

can children (or for that matter, anyone) learn through hypertext? the question that arises then is: can a replacement for reality do as good a job of recreating experience so that the actual experience is unnecessary?

i think that real education cannot be replaced by the internet. no site will every recreate the horror of disecting a worm in seventh grade, or the pleasure of reading The Catcher in the Rye for the first time, or th excitement of exploring the city.

this subject is ongoing as children find "unacceptable sites" available to them and people continually exploit the medium. the education of the individual will ultimately depend on himself. i suppose one will have to learn to balance experience with the virtual world of the internet.

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