Stanford decides to be Wal-Mart; doesn't anyone care about quality education any more?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stanford decides to be Wal-Mart; doesn't anyone care about quality education any more?
Roger Schank, Education Outrage, June 18, 2014
OK, if this is to be the argument against MOOCs, then universities and their professors are in trouble. Here's the argument: "I am sure, that Stanford itself won’t give the stuff they produce to it’s own students. No one calls this racism (or classism), but it is education for poor people, just as Wal-Mart is focused on poor people. Stanford students won’t eat what Stanford sells to others, but it is selling it like mad to those folks who will never see Palo Alto and will never access a real Stanford education."
Let's ask, for a moment, what it would cost to provide a 'Stanford' education for everyone. More...