Well, he does make one good point in that each student should learn to "know thyself". However, the rest sounds like he's trying to rationalize his perceived i

Well, he does make one good point in that each student should learn to "know thyself". However, the rest sounds like he's trying to rationalize his perceived inadequacy relative to his students' potential. Instead of becoming a luddite, he should realize that classrooms have changed: we don't need to be in the same "broadcast domain" to disseminate information anymore, push those lectures into PDFs they can read outside of class; use the face-time in class to pose questions for the group to solve/discuss; take more class time to answer questions students have (or add a digg-style interface to students questions before class so that the questions important to the students get discussed; etc. Technology bridges gaps that this guy just wants to widen....