What Good is Online Education?

"The purpose of education is inquiry." - Dr. Molefi Asante  

Dear friends, 

The online education thing has gotten out of hand now. That is, just as Facebook and other"social networks" allow people to find union with others, without ever having any genuine contact, the necessarily impersonal relationships into which people must enter, in order to acquire their material means of survival - called a political economy or process of social reproduction (in our case "capitalism"), under the guise of "automation", has two major educational institutions, Harvard and MIT, now offering an online forum that will help them "corner", as it were, a part of the market. This will, invariably, justify the demise of higher education as we know it. Worse yet, please imagine learning how to work in a lab without a real professor present. 

"The purpose of education is inquiry." - Dr. Molefi Asante 

G. Djata Bumpus
 http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=1061128740