Wow.
Here's the bit where he talks about the drawbacks:
For students not majoring in science, however, that same success has quite a different consequence. Lost to these nonscience students is an exposure to cutting-edge science and the methods of science taught by professors active on a daily basis in their exploration of nature. In how many AP classes in high school does the physics instructor say, "At the last American Physical Society meeting, one of my students presented a paper on this very topic"? Or, in an astronomy class, "My upcoming observations using the Hubble Space Telescope will address this dark-energy issue"? Identical scenarios exist, of course, for science and engineering students who miss out on university-level introductions to the humanities and social sciences taught by active scholars in those areas.
So apparently, the real problem with the AP system is that it makes the outrageously inflated college experience more affordable, but it doesn't give the professor enough opportunities to talk about himself?
Also, I'm not sure he understands the term "introduction."
