> It was always a cost saving measure because allocating 30min face to face time with each individual student for each class is such a gigantic cost for the institution that they cannot even imagine doing it. Think about that the next time you look at your student debt, it couldn’t even buy you 30min time per class individually with the teacher to evaluate your performance.
Average student debt after a 4 year degree is ~$35,000 after ~45 courses. Before even running the math it should be obvious the gigantic cost of higher ed over 4 years is entirely unrelated to what an instructor would be making for ~23 hours of work (barring a secret society of multi millionaires). I.e. the problem you're identifying is the vast majority of $ spent in higher ed is not going to time with your professors, not that doing so is itself expensive.
Average student debt after a 4 year degree is ~$35,000 after ~45 courses. Before even running the math it should be obvious the gigantic cost of higher ed over 4 years is entirely unrelated to what an instructor would be making for ~23 hours of work (barring a secret society of multi millionaires). I.e. the problem you're identifying is the vast majority of $ spent in higher ed is not going to time with your professors, not that doing so is itself expensive.