The Missing Link

The internet is a great place to start in educating people. The internet has taken over our culture, and it should be no surprise that education will start becoming more internet based. Many people do not have the time to drive to a classroom and sit there for two hours. Now that education can be reached at people's houses, people can now multi-task and still be learning. I feel it will especially help the youth extremely because the people who cannot afford education will now be able to get it through the internet. Some problems I see with this are the usual computer problems people can have, and the fact that because people will not be travelling to classrooms, they will become more lazy and just stay at home. Overall though, I feel it was bound to happen because the internet has taken over our lives and we have become so dependent on it.

I am going to go a little bit off-topic, but I find it quite a shame that the internet has infiltrated almost every aspect of our lives. Without going to college and interacting with other people, we cannot learn to live in the real world. Certainly the advantages of online college education, such as being more accessible to those who cannot afford it or cannot make a commute to further their education are valid. However, once everything is online, will there be any need to leave our homes? Do the benefits of putting everything online make it alright to have a society where people can’t even have a one on one conversation? I sometimes fear that the United States will eventually become a nation of mindless zombies, with more information at our fingertips then we know what to do with.

I agree with Nisha. The way I see it, one of the goals of going to school is learning how to grow up. I doubt you can get the same experience sitting in a room with a computer. There are certain things a program can't teach. As cliche as it sounds, if you are not interacting with people how do you learn about respect and compassion? What's the point of living in a world with millions of people if you can sit in your room and get by with absolutely no one? Young kids are molded by their environment. If they go to school on the internet, they have no environment to mold from. They end up becoming, like Nisha said, zombie with information. So what happens when they need to go get a job or are looking to get married and start their life? The elementary fights over swings or awkward middle school days or even petty highschool drama are all experiences to learn from. School provides you with opportunities to apply what you learn. You have to actually attend school to do that. It'S called hands-on learning.