“… The most important goal of a university education is to teach student how to think and a major component of that process is critical thinking. Unfortunately, sitting in front of your monitor reading a lecture is not the best way to learn how to think and it doesn’t give you any practice in critical thinking. There’s a reason why students need to interact with other students and scholars in a university setting and it’s very sad that people like Bill Gates don’t get it …” (more)
[Sandwalk, 10 August]