Yeah, yeah, online classes. They don’t get you into a good law school, don’t get you into a medical school, don’t get you into Ph. D. programs, what’s the point? They don’t get you in-person networking or research opportunities either. Also, why bother, considering graded online classes are similarly priced to a state/community school in a state that gives a shit about public education, not football.

We’re designed to communicate and network in person, not sit isolated, staring at a stinking screen. Do we really want to create a world of even more isolated, depressed, socially inept, frustrated techbros? Why do you think that suicide and opiate abuse rates are going bananas recently?

Like it or not, part of college is the experience of living on your own for the first time, meeting other people, partying, talking to professors in person, helping other students, schtupping like rabid rabbits…

It’s not a question of indoctrination (no matter how much anti-intellectuals like to think it is) as much as a matter of socialization.