This post continues the discussion of what distinguishes an on-campus education from one where all the materials are available online, particularly where those (say) are MIT materials. The usual talk about "the serendipity that results from taking a life-changing course you weren't thinking about because your friend is in it or having a deeply meaningful and entirely unplanned conversation" is offered here again. But no - it's not about the learning, it's about the network and connections and the status that attending the institution can afford. Contra Feldstein, the institutions don't have to do anything on campus to nurture this - they just need to keep on being elite and exclusive. Their customers and the wider public will do the rest.
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