As the internet rises and distance learning increases, is there still room for old-fashioned teachers? “Perhaps it is inevitable that those whose business it is to flog Rabelais, Montaigne, and Neo-Platonic poetics to technology-savvy, career-conscious, and heavily indebted students should begin to wonder whether their role as teachers is superfluous. After all, teachers, in general, are the apotheosis of human inefficiency.” – Chronicle of Higher Education 12/04/00