Very few people have the drive and discipline to systematically learn a bachelor's degree worth of content from that online material while sitting in their chil

Very few people have the drive and discipline to systematically learn a bachelor's degree worth of content from that online material while sitting in their childhood bedrooms. Schools are, in part, a social technology for getting students to actually do the work and stick with it. Conceivably the community and social pressure could also be replicated on the internet.