Even accepting his definition of “learning” here means acquiring novel data, it’s notable that he doesn’t seem to think you can learn valuable things about YOURSELF.
Also he’s flat wrong even then, as anyone who’s found the first record of a species in a particular range on iNaturalist can attest.
Kingfisher & Wombat
Reporter for The Free Press says there’s no point in going places yourself if you can read about them on Wikipedia.
Truly, the soul of a journalist.
