I think this might be the main reason that a lot of educators have been hesitant to integrate new technologies into our system. It comes back to the idea that if it's not broken don't fix it. however, it completely ignores the fact that just because something has worked for so long doesn't mean that it will continue to work.

The only problem I have with this point is that a lot of my experience with mentorship on the internet comes by a "trial through fire" in which criticism comes in non-constructive ways.

This is why interactive experience is vital to the future of our education system. Limited examples already exist like the FIRSTRobtics program

The idea that one should be able to change their social standing is embedded in our society but it puts them into a different, "transitional" group, no longer equals to the original group and not yet equals to a new group.