It gives us practice, confidence, support. But is not public discourse. It is limited discourse. Public discourse will never be any neater than the learning which engenders it. Public discourse is learning, not performance.
Performance is neat.
Performance is welll-timed. Performance has an opening and a satisfactory end. Public discourse is messy, sometimes cantankerous, sometimes disruptive. But public discourse is the forum in which our most precious dreams must strive to come true. The Incorporation of Distance Learning Material on distance education by Michael Cole, of Virtual Faculty.