I&#x27;ve become more and more convinced over the years that &quot;higher education&quot; is much more about signalling and not-so-much about learning, although of course part of the signal is showing your ability to learn on demand and just &quot;show-up&quot; and do what you are told.<p>Of course, networking has always been a big part of <i>the benefit</i> being accepted to an elite university, so while I accept the learning part of it will be easily disrupted, I am not really convinced (yet) that the signalling and the networking can be replaced so easily.<p>[edits]