Is this guy serious? He is literally insulting people for enjoying learning stuff they are interested in because it doesn't carry the Seal of Institutional Appr

Is this guy serious? He is literally insulting people for enjoying learning stuff they are interested in because it doesn't carry the Seal of Institutional Approval. He even calls Gates shallow for enjoying a course on oceanography! >Jonathan Freedman is a professor of English and American culture I don't mean to demean any discipline, but I wonder if his specialization has anything to do with the condescending tone. I just completed 3 MOOC's on coursera (Algorithms with Sedgewick, that Scala course with Odersky and, my favorite, Programming Languages with Dan Grossman) and I assure you none of them were "lists, hooks, easy handles". They were difficult and I gave several dozen hours of hard work to them. I wonder if he has ever actually attempted a course? More likely just turned up his nose at all the commoners trying to get an education. I leave you with this totally serious quote from that article: >Yes, the vulgarians who run Coursera and Udacity deserve to be swept into the dustbin of history, and the fact that they seem not to have figured out how to profit from their enterprises suggests that they'll soon be hoist by their own capitalist petard.