Anonymity versus Commitment: the dangers of education on the Internet

For two decades computers have been touted as a new technology that will revitalise education. In the eighties they were proposed as tutors, tutees, and drillmasters, but none of those ideas seem to have taken hold. Now the latest proposal is that somehow the power of the World Wide Web will make possible a new approach to education for the twenty-first century. In School’s Out, Lewis J. Perelman, considering the future of high schools, announces with assurance: