I think this is just data point N that's consistent with so-called "higher education", if not government schooling alone, being increasingly revealed to be a ve

I think this is just data point N that's consistent with so-called "higher education", if not government schooling alone, being increasingly revealed to be a very inefficient -- where not outright distortive or parasitic -- phenomenon that's simply a holdover from a previous age. Whether we call that the Middle Ages, or the early Industrial era, etc. It's clearly an anachronism, in terms of process and technology and assumptions. Good riddance! Not all "education" is good. And not all learning requires "education", formal or otherwise. Book learning can occur outside/without a classroom/school paradigm. And much of the correct-vs-false mechanisms and signal-extraction-or-broadcast mechanisms of traditional education can be replaced, or at least massively automated/optimized, with software. And like the general phenomenon where information bits want to be free, an increasing amount of static educational material is going to become effectively free and public domain. First the purely static experiences, like text, but an increasing amount of the dynamic and interactive experiences as well. Education, government and banking are all up for yet more huge disruptions and shifts due to computers and the Internet.