I welcome your special report on Peter Drucker (“Trusting the Teacher in the Gray-Flannel Suit,” November 19, 2005), which also serves as his obituary, and I very much agree with your claim that every educated person should be familiar with his writings. Yet, I take exception from your opinion that he was outright wrong in his critique of universities. Although they are not yet “relics,” the universities have avoided that fate in part by following his advice. As the millennium was approaching its end, he was primarily concerned with the exorbitant cost of higher education, especially in America, and he offered so-called distance learning as a way out of the mounting costs. In this he was undoubtedly right, as the subsequent explosion of distance learning has shown. If universities are not “failures,” this is largely due to their increasing reliance on information technology in connecting teachers and students. And Drucker never said that they should not be brought together. Rather, he questioned the universities’ “monopoly” in accomplishing this task. How very right he was, too.