The reason to build the information highway is to provide people with the opportunity to do things that could not be done without it. In education the problem is not getting great courses delivered to remote locations. While it is true that kids in small towns are often taught physics by the football coach, the opportunity that new information technologies offer is bigger than their ability to simply receive television signals from better, big-city high schools.
Computers allow real interaction, and active exploratory education instead of passive listening.
This means creating computer-based courses that allow students to build simulated rocket ships or to try running the country by playing the President in an interactive situation. The success of these sorts of programs does not entail having all of America's experts on line to instantly answer questions from students. Nevertheless this sort of immediate access to experts is an idea which is seriously being proposed by proponents of the highway. What can be done instead is to create video libraries of experts that are accessed through sophisticated software, although this means investing in the creation of such software. To facilitate government access we do not need electronic copies of government documents.