Everything that Meg is talking about should already be done in class; simply funneling the discourse on to the web is only a partial solution and moot by itself. If education at all levels was given adequate funding and not seen merely as tool for career advancement, by students and teachers alike, people might not feel so shitty about it. I'm pretty sure it's not what she meant, but Meg's comments could also be interpreted as "Who needs school when you've got Blogger?" Meanwhile, universities everywhere are
reinventing themselves as search engines.