If all universities did that, the few ones that actually make sense in their traditional form would collapse overnight. These are still important institutions.

If all universities did that, the few ones that actually make sense in their traditional form would collapse overnight. These are still important institutions. I do understand that this wild-sounding idea would have a place under a different system for higher education and not just community colleges. I know a quantum physicist, a pretty renowned one, who has an even wilder-sounding idea, which is to eliminate exams. These ideas sound so wild, and perhaps practically are wild in the current context, because they don't express or account for the full mental model that the proponent likely has in mind.