I think it&#x27;s pretty funny that MOOC&#x27;s bought into the premise that the purpose of higher education was education. Seriously: what fraction of what you do on the job isn&#x27;t something you couldn&#x27;t have learned at a three-month company training course? Outside of highly specialized fields, it&#x27;s probably not much.<p>I think the universities understand a lot better than the MOOCs that the point was never that Stanford had education you can&#x27;t get elsewhere, but that it lets you tell people you went to Stanford and other people didn&#x27;t.