Agree on education - it's not just the teacher, it's also about being part of an actual class - the social dimension if you will - you learn as much from your c

Agree on education - it's not just the teacher, it's also about being part of an actual class - the social dimension if you will - you learn as much from your classmates as you do from your teachers and indeed as many opportunities arise through the network you develop there too. Another benefit is that being part of a herd forces you to keep moving briskly through the material without getting to stuck on any one thing. There is a lot to be said too for the social support that is available when you have direct access to teachers and classmates. Doing any challenging course of learning is sufficiently taxing in this regard. I do see many online and distance learning approaches trying to tackle some of these confounding "emotional" aspects to education but I don't think they're quite there yet.