[dxjones]

In order to keep "the education bubble" growing, the article speaks highly of reducing teaching costs by 40% (by relying less on actual PhD professors who know what they are talking about) and instead giving "students ... a choice of learning styles and ways to get help online from ... fellow students". Oh, and paying university presidents huge incentives for using such "cost cutting" measures.

Yeah, right. Take their $50K+ in annual tuition, then plug students into an e-learning social network where they "TEACH THEMSELVES" through "INNOVATIVE LEARNING STYLES".

If these moves are genuinely embraced, it will indeed create a bubble that will grow until these poor disillusioned students realize they are just sheep following other sheep wandering around, going nowhere, ... when they should instead have been following a shepherd who knew where he/she was going.

Why would we want to create a bubble anyway? By definition, it is only a bubble if it will eventually burst.