Is the web a good place to learn?

Is the web a good place to learn?

Stephen Fry (Author and Broadcaster) gives expert video advice on: Could you live without the internet?; What are your favourite sites?; What do you avoid on the internet? and more...

There is an enormous desire for learning and understanding. I never cease to be amazed at the inquisitiveness of humanity, and if I were to say particularly British people, it may be unfair, but I've certainly noticed that more people now go and look at pictures, and see that art galleries have never been fuller in all their history, with native Britons as much as the tourists who come to look at paintings, and learn. It's true of libraries and language learning and all kinds of things. There's an immense inquisitive desire for people to learn, to know more, to understand more. I think the Web can provide the enormous well both of authoritative and individual expertise in all kinds of things.