{"id":1598,"date":"2021-06-28T15:59:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:59:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:59:53","slug":"windsor-man-realizes-that-learning-the-dewey-decimal-system-has-not-helped-him-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Windsor man realizes that learning the Dewey Decimal system has not helped him in life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Windsor, ON \u2013 Jerry Richmond, age 51, of Windsor has come to the realization that years spent in the Ontario public school system learning the Dewey Decimal system may have been a waste.\u00a0 \u201cIt just kind of hit me the other day that after tenth or eleventh grade I never needed the Dewey Decimal system again.\u00a0 Never used it again in my entire life\u201d Mr. Richmond announced on social media over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Dewey Decimal organizes library materials in an index by discipline or field of study and was a large part of the public school curriculum during Mr. Richmond\u2019s formative years.\u00a0 He went on to describe his introduction to the system in his younger days \u201cWe had library class for one hour twice a week with Mr. Love at William G. Davis public school.\u00a0\u00a0 And now that I think about it the name Mr. Love sounds kind of made up.\u00a0 So I\u2019m starting to think this whole Dewey Decimal system may have been some kind of elaborate scam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Richmond said his epiphany came recently when he was using Google to look something up on Wikipedia \u201cIt occurred to me that I don\u2019t need to ever go to a library to find information.\u00a0 My phone and laptop have all the answers\u201d he elaborated further \u201cKids today don\u2019t know how easy they have it.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have to learn cursive writing, they don\u2019t have to spend hours researching things in the library, they don\u2019t have to use the ladies underwear section in the Sears catalog as a form of soft-core pornography.\u00a0 They can just find everything they need for a fulfilling childhood on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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