40 minutes ago, Crow Horse said:

My experience has been that without the results of direct experience, untested information can be easily forgotten.

 

Truth.

8 hours ago, Catt said:

Lotta knowledge on the World Wide Web...very little wisdom.

 

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Nailed it. It seems that both wisdom & understanding are commodities in short supply and for many, have little value.

 

Addendum to my earlier post - Learning is a never ending process. There is no finish line, no tape to break, grab a drink and grab a lawn chair to watch the rest of the finishers.  It is an eternal journey, not only with bass fishing, but everything in life (and beyond).

17 hours ago, king fisher said:

You can learn all you want to on the internet, but you still have to go out, backlash your reel, set the hook to soon on a top water, and finally land a bass, before you really learn what bass fishing is all about.

100% agree. I am not the type to figure anything out unless I actually do it. There is no replacement for time on the water. I will agree that instant access to information does certainly provide some tips.
 

In fishing, I have found that there is no substitute for dedication, hard work, and perseverance. Definitely not knocking the post, I am simply stating that @Mobasser’s grandson likely checks all these boxes.  

9 hours ago, Pat Brown said:

It takes a lot of dirt time before you get bit and even more dirt time before you can catch em all year.  

Love the phrase "dirt time".  It's a phrase that is often used in tracking training.

My brother is a middle school PE teacher, and about three years from retirement. 

 

He started a nonprofit called Let's Fish Omaha.

 

Goal is to get kids fishing, especially those with no fathers, or from rough backgrounds. 

 

I'm super proud of the work he is doing! 

Learning from the internet worries me some.  Hopefully, today's youth (and their parents and educators) are doing a much better job than I do learning from the internet.  I'm in my 60s, so even my kids growing up learned much more from books and experience than the internet, so I really don't know much about how youth learn today.  My concern comes from my personal experience that having answers to anything anytime makes the new knowledge so much more perishable.  That is, when I look up something, in my subconscious, I know that I don't really have to retain it.  I can just look it up again tomorrow.   When I read something in a book or magazine, or encyclopedia, etc, I worked to know it.  And retain it.  Maybe as much a function of an aging mind...I don’t know... But I definitely do not retain information well that I just google and move on quickly to something else.  Not just availability, but the internet lends itself to short form immediate answers.  Trying to get in depth knowledge about anything on the interwebs can be quite challenging.