Is the DETC really second-rate?

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I don't see that my learning experience would be improved at all if I first had to fight traffic, try to find a parking place, wonder if thieves or vandals will select my vehicle for their attention today, dodge proselytes and perverts on the way to class, involuntarily listen to some deviant's political indoctrination disguised as part of the class, sit at a desk designed for a midget, rub elbows and make small talk with people to whom I wouldn't give the time of day otherwise, etc. etc.

Those with the multi-billion dollar endowments and owners of said bricks & mortar would have us believe that only the latter above-described experience constitutes the full measure of a true and valid education. I think not.  

The fact is that when people cannot be herded, confined and detained they are less amenable to indoctrination, peer pressure and threats.

Thanks to the internet one can access resources online, buy books for cheap or have rare articles or sources mailed to his doorstep. Sure, he may have to pay for it, but nowhere near the bare costs of commuting alone.
As a plus, I haven't to worry about what the 'funny' (colored, transgendered, communist, 'liberal'...) classmate, teacher or official may think of my opinion...or to be accused to have wasted years of youknowwho's psychotherapy.
Politics cast aside, I am not interested in booze, parties and smoking pot. I can always visit a strip-club or brothel that won't cost me $400 per credit hour.
You won't believe I had a postgraduate classmate who -in the early afternoon- attended lectures after drinking heavily and smoking stuff, as his breath could tell.
Another was a communist junkie living on state subsidies AND at the same time wishing for a revolution that would annihilate the status quo to avenge the exploitation of third world farmers.
Fine, I said...when would you love such revolution to take place? The day before or the day after you get your welfare cheque?
Silence shrouded the class.
He wants to climb the corporate ladder to become a university teacher...his classes' syllabi would have been appropriate for East Germany in the 1970s...
What's the wage of his profession of choice?
$100.000...$150.000 a year...
Yea, right up the very a$$ of those third world exploited farmers, eh?