No...it's not cheating...the idea is to gain knowledge from wherever you can, however you can. Cheating is if you submit an essay that someone else has written but you haven't read it yourself or don't understand the contents..but pretend you do..in which case it will eventually catch up with you. I try to get my kids to use the internet to broaden their knowledge on anything and everything, but they seem to take the view that if it's not on the curriculum at school, they don't need to know it. Am i alone here ?