As I watched the show, my mind returned to a hearing at the state Capitol last year before a further education panel of the Senate Finance Council .

But no one knows how much at that point because online education is too new. "Do you think in 20 years someone is going to put on their backpack, drive a half hour to the School of Minnesota from the outskirts, haul their keister across campus and sit and hear some uninteresting person drone on about Econ 101 or Spanish 101? " he asked Stewart. The quantity of totally online classes at the U of M more than tripled between the 2005-06 educational year and last year " from 340 to 1,179. All those skills we develop as school room learners need to be ramped up a gear. Another teacher : I will not reject that there's a place for online classes but nothing, nothing at all can encourage a student to learn like a forceful professor, and nothing impresses a professor ( more ) than watching the familiar light-bulb going off in a few scholars sitting in front of us. Solid state physics ) thru on line and in a number of cases NEVER talked with my instructor except to ask a query during class thru the call in system. But to take two or four years of lecture room time working and studying with peers and substitute it with a machine appears like a step backward. And to respond to your question , no it was not govt getting out of the way and cutting taxes that made the business expansions of the 50s and 60s. If you knew what you are intended to learn you would not have to go to college. When you go the ER the issue is whether your going to stroll out of there alive, not whether you'd suggest it to your pals. Smith,//the scholar is the one that should be making the choice about the sort of course she or he wants AND how much he is prepared to pay for it. If a degree is to signal anything other the indisputable fact that you took some classes you presumed were fascinating there have to be degree wants. But you apparently think someone ought to be in a position to hobble together a degree and get a diploma from somebody after taking any number of courses anywhere. It's not only about having a chunk of paper, if your going to achieve success in a field that needs further education you know what your doing.