MBA's, Distance Learning and the Middle Ages

Distance learning. This sounded 30 years ago like a strange paradox. Two centuries ago it would have been impossible to achieve.
MBA: How to teach managers and leaders to become even better managers and leaders.
All the Leadership trainings, management, financial analysis and other types of professional improvements can not be subtituted (a leastnot yet, in my opinion) with some strange distant learning or online courses. The ''student' must attend the classes, the physical presence, the immediate experience of the course, the teachers charisma, the interactive style is a key succes factor for the efficiency of the pedagogical exercise.
The classical approach towards the academic-level teaching was focused on the direct, personal and face to face approach.

Since the early middle ages, the famous Chines, Middle-East and European universities -like Nanjing University, University of Al-Karaouine (Fes, Marocco), Nizamiyya (Iran), University of Bologna or the Charles University of Prague-prepared their students to become the intellectual elite of their society, and not necessary to become good managers.

Most uf the medieval universities (word derived from the latin "universitas magistrorum et scholarium" which means"community of teachers and scholars"- received a strong influence from the national church.

So, the benefited education was a result of the strong combination of scientific theses with religious dogmas. A good example towards this example is the famous geocentric vs heliocentric debate within European universities during the Renaissance period.
Let us imagine a Project Management training in the University of Oxford at the year 1167...

How can soft skills, communication or sales technique inherited by a student trough online courses? Is this the future way to form the knowledge of our children, is this the way the future generations will learn their competences, just by sitting in front of the monitor and completing exams?
The future's right, the future's us.