> Toyama believes it’s foolish to think education is about having content available to study. [...] "we have fed it to them online possibly through some fancy interactive graphic"<p>It's hard to tell whether the author is engaging heavily in quote-out-of-context or whether Kentaro is truly just amazingly narrow-minded.<p>Of course having online-access is not a panacea. How useful it is to any given person depends on what kind of person that person is in the first place.<p>However, to those people who <i>would</i> go to a library and dig through books to learn knowledge, who <i>would</i> try and gain some knowledge before making a decision, the internet works as a massive force multiplier just by providing basic access to text. I can say this because i grew up in the depths of eastern germany, in the poorest part of the country, and having only minimal resources available to me for the first 15 years of my life, and then moving over the course of a few short years when the wall fell to being able to rely on the internet to provide reliable information on all manner of subjects ranging from simple things like gardening to personal health.<p>Frankly, the way people who grew up in the lap of luxury try to disparage the internet disgusts me.