If there’s one thing that might be right about this article, it’s that Sweden is the closest thing to an Ayn Rand society than any other on earth.

ut students on the margin, those who can’t really afford to move away from home and give up good jobs, will increasingly choose the fully online option.  And those students who choose the traditional experience will increasingly want it to cost less and offer more of the benefits of online instruction, not just its flexibility but also its growing quality.

“The Industrial Revolution was fostered by a surge in literacy rates. Improvements in reading and writing were nurtured by the spread of schools. And the founding of schools was aided by rising population density.”

I don’t understand how mass literacy triggered the industrial revolution. You don’t need to be literate to operate a machine, only to invent one. And for that you only need the literacy of an elite, not of the masses.