Teachers are obselete

Education costs can be reduced sharply. Students would be just as well served by learning via computer.
I realized this when a young friend entered a college where I'd once taught . My friend took English 101-a course designed to impart literacy to freshmen students-on the internet. She was one of 150 students in her class. She wrote an essay a week and had it returned with comments. The "teacher" who may in fact be a computer-taught two classes of 101. The other course also contained 150 students.

Think of the savings! One adjunct professor marked 300 papers a week. (If there was in fact a human involved) The cost was minimal as an adjunct makes about $1,000 dollars per class. No student was unsing the University facilities. No rooms were required, no heating or cooling was demanded and no parking lot was sullied by an influx of cars. Trust me, this is pure profit for the institution.

Another young friend took a full load of course work on computer. She paid full tuition for each instructional hour. She even insisted on staying in the University dorm for that semester. Her father was bewildered but he paid for his daughter's social life without much protest.

The final realization that teachers are obselete came when another young friend told me she was taking "Public Speaking"  via the internet. She'll get full University credit for this course.