Of course it's subjective. Not all people have as much to gain from this additional access. There are people close to me that I'm pretty sure would've hung themselves by now without internet communities.
Though for humanity as a whole, obviously access to information is the biggest deal. But why stop at education? People today have more awareness than ever about everything. In some cases, including things that average civilians would never have gotten to see, like government leaks, or videos of executions.
And neither of those things are always positive obviously. Not all educational materials are good, not all communities have a positive effect, and sometimes there's just too much information to find the signal in the noise.
So I think it's fair to argue either really. And, truth be told, it's possible we couldn't have had one without the other, given how much individual people have contributed to the internet knowledge stores.
Though for humanity as a whole, obviously access to information is the biggest deal. But why stop at education? People today have more awareness than ever about everything. In some cases, including things that average civilians would never have gotten to see, like government leaks, or videos of executions.
And neither of those things are always positive obviously. Not all educational materials are good, not all communities have a positive effect, and sometimes there's just too much information to find the signal in the noise.
So I think it's fair to argue either really. And, truth be told, it's possible we couldn't have had one without the other, given how much individual people have contributed to the internet knowledge stores.