Yeah, if they’d had the internet when I was a girl… Or when I was trying to get a degree…

I found teachers more interesting as people. The thing about a class is the serendipity that happens there that is often not in the curriculum. Unless you want a social scene. It’s also hard to DO experiments on your own, not just watch them. Or go on field trips.

But Universities are much more than teaching kids; they’re think tanks and places for people to donate money to people doing research and places for people to receive grants and do more study. It’s actually a recent thing that they are such diploma mills. Until the government lets internet communities get grants and be tax write-offs, Universities will flourish. But many colleges already hurt for money. If they lost that, they would go under.

But teaching art on the internet is very difficult and teaching art like ceramics or cooking is impossible. Because you have to do it and have the instructor there to help you learn i a physical way. It’s almost impossible to play in an internet orchestra or play football on an internet team. Much of University funding is about sports and sports ain’t gonna happen on the internet despite the fan base there. Talk about sports, but no sports.

I could see going to lectures on line and reading books and materials on line, but some things are off in the distant future.

later gator,
mom