An anticipated report announcing changes in elementary school curriculum in England will add the study of Wikipedia and Twitter while allowing schools to opt out of teaching the Victorian era or World War II, which are taught extensively in secondary education.

Former Office for Standards in Education chief Sir Jim Rose assessed the existing British primary education curriculum and prioritized the study of blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as "sources of information and forms of communication," according to The Guardian, which the BBC cites as breaking the story.

In The Guardian's article, head of education of Britain's National Union of Teachers, John Bangs, comments that "computer skills and keyboard skills seem to be as important as handwriting in [Rose's report]. Traditional books and written texts are downplayed in response to web-based learning."

Ironically, Wikipedia cites a Guardian article published in the past five years which cites a librarian and Internet consultant, Philip Bradley, stating that "theoretically, [Wikipedia] is a lovely idea, but practically, I wouldn't use it and I'm not aware of a single librarian who would. The main problem is the lack of authority. With printed publications, the publishers have to ensure that their data is reliable, as their livelihood depends on it. But with something like [Wikipedia], all that goes out the window."

That is, Wikipedia cites the latter Guardian article until any given person on the entire planet omits (knowingly or not) the citation from the Wikipedia wiki page about itself, throwing the link to the quote about throwing credibility out the window, out the window.