human learning and why online computer based instruction is wrong for many.

OK, so I am an old fashioned guy. But keep in mind that I am "tech aware", so don't have a built in bias in using technology for teaching and learning.
But lets face it guys, there is something wrong with our whole approach to teaching and learning when distance education and on line courses take over.
Lets start with the human race at about 5 million years ago. From then to about 200 years ago almost EVERYTHING anyone learned was directly from someone. Granted writing (5000 years ago + or -) allowed some self-instruction, but not by many. Learning was done at the side of a parent, sibling, relative or master. (not sexist here, please) Boys became men by being with men (hunting) and girls became woman by being with women (gathering). Our ancestors learned everything from someone directly. So (here comes the "E" word) we evolved a brain that was especially suited to one-on-one teaching/learning. We saw, heard, touched, smelled and tasted our way into knowledge. OMG!! that sounds like multisensorial learning.
So, for 5 million years our system of learning and teaching depended on each other in close contact. Where the hell does on line computer based non multisensorial learning fit that picture? It doesn't. Sure it works for some people for some things some times but at what cost? The world of on line education sets up "communities" and "chats" and "face time via web cam" and other pseudo-social melieus. Where does that leave the human brain that craves real contact? Out in the cold, that's where. The concept that we can all learn more better faster from computers/embedded humans I think is deeply flawed.
I remember when a degree from NOVA was a joke. Now you can get a PhD (or ABD if you are really smart) on line and never touch a human being. And people take them seriously. Sure, distance ed has a role to play, and serves a central purpose of getting more learning to more people faster and cheaper. But for god's sake, 50 years ago Florida and Virginia began community colleges so no citizen would be more that 50 miles from a school. They were up close and personal. And they worked. They had academic and trade programs and remedial education for the under prepared. Now they are being moved into on line programs in order to compete and keep the bottom line going black.
How the hell will someone that failed to learn to read in K-12 learn to read on line? In their leaky double wide? With not enough food? (Never mind the staggering poverty of millions of aboriginal Americans and many of the rest of us).
Folks, we have lost our focus and our souls (from Search?). While we move into the e-sphere we lose our humanity and many of our brothers and sisters too. Eradicate poverty? Never happen. Eradicate disease? Never happen. Eradicate ignorance? Never happen. Eradicate politicians? Never happen. Eradicate the human race? A real possibility.
Food for thought. Comments?