@eclpts: @bernie12 would agree with your Stanford article.
Especially with the internet and lectures and notes online everywhere, charging thousands of dollars for a lecture class is almost a crime. I went from a HS that, when I went, was at the forefront of educational experimentation, and went I went to an Ivy-equivalent, the lectures felt antediluvian. As if, instead of progressing, I was back in the Middle Ages. Seminars, Oxbridge-style tutorials, case-study classes where the prof asks questions, flipped classes/experiential learning, even TA sessions where students ask questions. Those are worth attending a college in person for. Lectures are not.