When the author read that the history department at Middlebury College had "banned Wikipedia" she immediately wrote to the college's president, Ronald D. Liebowitz, to express her concern that such decision would lead to a national trend, one that would not be good for higher education. She states that Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia. It is a knowledge community, uniting anonymous readers all over the world who edit and correct grammar, style, interpretations, and facts. It is a community devoted to a common good--the life of the intellect which educators want to model for their students. Thus, she recommends readers to take the hubbub around Middlebury's decision as an opportunity to engage students--and the country--in a substantive discussion of how people learn today, of how they make arguments from evidence, of how they extrapolate from discrete facts to theories and interpretations, and on what basis. Knowledge isn't just information, and it isn't just opinion. There are better and worse ways to reach conclusions, and complex reasons for how people arrive at them. The "discussion" section of Wikipedia is a great place to begin to consider some of the processes involved.