1/ I would say it goes way beyond this, as well. It sounds trite to say that you learn a lot in 3 AM debates with your dorm-mates, but you really do, and one reason is accountability. https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1280222450253533185">https://twitter.com/blakehoun...
2/ People are pretty good at rationalizing away challenges to their views. So you make an argument in class, someone makes a good rejoinder, but you don& #39;t change your mind, because you convince yourself that you& #39;re still right for reasons you can& #39;t articulate at the moment.
3/ But you have the same debate every few nights with your roommate or the person who lives upstairs, and after a while, you might just change your mind. I know I did on a number of things that were important to me.
4/ More generally, "networking" is an absurdly reductionist way of referring to the sort of intellectual community building that a truly great university education involves.
5/ Faculty, classes, libraries, etc. are essential to this, because (a) students learn a lot in them, and (b) they provide intellectual grist for the rest of campus life.
6/6 But other aspects of campus life are *also* essential to this. And they simply are not replicable online, even if good teaching could be done as effectively online. Which it can& #39;t.
7/6 I& #39;ll also add that being part of that sort of intellectual community inspires one to broaden one& #39;s intellectual ambitions. Being surrounded by cool, smart people interested in totally different things than you are gets you interested in those things, too.
8/6 Just to be super-clear: This sort of education is simply not available in 2020-21. It is not covid-compatible. We should not try to do it; it would kill lots of people.

But the schools that can should get back to it as soon as it is safe to do so.
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