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At the end of the day, personalized education, in many forms, is the future.

I think that'd be a pretty disastrous future; the purpose of "higher education", if it's to continue in any organized or disorganized form, is not to be personalized. The purpose is twofold:

* Give the students a common background of ideas and basic knowledge of their culture.

* Through study, discussion and debate of those ideas/culture, give them the ability to absorb and critically reflect upon arbitrary information.

In other words, there's a reason why, if you look at the bits which make them up, the terms "university" and "diversity" are practically antonyms.



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