It would truly pain me if all education were directed at skills training. There is more to life than a job. Granted we must all eat but to be human is to be able to think and to reason. Education is much more than instruction. Lifelong instruction is not much different than life on a traadmill ever running but getting nowhere. The mind is a marvelous think and shallow instruction is a lot like eating fast food. It may satisfy for a short while but doe not enable the learner to solve the real problems we face today. Most of which have no simple solutions.

Personally, I am a Vygotskying Constructivist and I believe that we will always need a more-knowledgable-other to emotionally enspire the learning process. I have yet to see a computer do this. My question is how can we bring such emotion to the Internet. I have yet to see it being done anywhere and would like to hear from anyone who has.