Time Magazine Writes That Americans Have Feelings About Online Education?

Unfortunately, “feelings” is probably the right word.  Here is a link.

http://nation.time.com/2013/10/16/americans-have-mixed-feelings-about-online-education/

Here is my view which I put in my comment.

“Let’s see. Jon Meacham recently wrote, “…barely half [of college graduates] knew that the U.S. Constitution ­establishes the separation of powers. Forty-­three percent failed to identify John Roberts as Chief Justice; 62% didn’t know the correct length of congressional terms of office. (Read more: http://nation.time.com/2013/09/26/the-class-of-2025/#ixzz2i4fiNeuF) And college grads are a subset of “Americans” who have mixed “feelings” about something, namely the effectiveness of online course (of which there are all kinds), which is much harder to know about and understand than is say, the “..length of congressional terms…”

I don’t blame the American people (especially college graduates) from feeling that they know and understand enough to have feelings about difficult, not well-understood subjects, in spite of not having learned much in school. I do blame many in the educational establishment for knowingly and falsely making the American people believe they are essentially getting something for nothing. (Read about this, too, in Mr. Meacham’s article.)”