'e-ducation': electronic, emotionless and efficient?

Life is now a matter of selling oneself to slave-work, building roads or la bouring in quarries or mines or on the railways, purposeless, meaningless, real slave-work, each integer doing his [and/or her] mere labour, and all f or no purpose, except to have money, and to get: away from the old system. (...) It is as if the whole social form were breaking down, and the human e lement swarmed within the disintegration, like maggots in cheese. The roads , the railways are built, the mines and quarries are excavated but the whol e organism of life, the social organism, is slowly crumbling and caving in, in a kind of process of dry rot, most terrifying to see. (D. H. Lawrence, Twilight in Italy, 1997, Penguin Edition: 223/4).