A friend just brought this quotation to my attention:

"In the future, the great republic may only have blog schools, those
being schools where students are taught to sit in their underwear in
front of their luminescent laptops and pound out semiliterate diktats to
an -- for the most part -- unobservant world. Today the amalgamation of
all this indignation is called the 'blogosphere.' Its competing rants
are treated occasionally as significant in the media, though lunatics
howling on street corners are not. Very curious."--Emmet Tyrrell on the
future of American schools of journalism.

That's my rant for the day.  Time to put off the laptop, put on some clothes and go engage real people in a real classroom with real ideas that have been tried and tested by people who actually know what they are talking about.