By Sharon Schmickle, MinnPost.com
Pawlenty also cast the higher education options as an either/or choice. “Do you really think in 20 years somebody is going to put on their backpack, drive a half hour to the University of Minnesota from the suburbs, haul their keister across campus and sit and listen to some boring person drone on about Econ 101 or Spanish 101?” he asked Stewart. That’s not the way he outlined the options in his 2009 State of the State Address. In that speech, Pawlenty called upon the higher education system to “find even more ways to become more efficient and less focused on geography and bricks and mortar.” But Pawlenty also said, “I know online courses won’t replace some needed face-to-face education and hands-on experience, and we don’t want it to.”
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