Googling for bits of meaning is no substitute for understanding the larger context — but sifting Google-bits may be an effective and more enjoyable way of getting the little-bitty details than reading 2″ wide history books.

The judgment, the understanding, the links to culture, and the perspective has to be there to make the bits meaningful: that has to be there, no matter what. You’re saying you expect that to be inside kids’ heads.

I’m speculating whether judgment is following info-bits out of our noggins and into our peers. Choosing your friends would become the most important activity in life. They’re the folks you’ll be inventing reality with.

“Don’t wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.” (Albert Camus)

For example, Michael Crichton has used lessons from history very effectively at his web site to show that politicized science (as currently supports the superstition of global warming) has resulted in serious environmental damage in the past.

Complexity Theory and Environmental Management
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-complexity.html