There is much being made of modern day classrooms and lecture styles. In particular, massively open on-line courses (MOOCs) are gaining popularity at many institutions worldwide. Traditional classroom instruction involves direct face-to-face interactions between a student and a teacher. Logical thinking, creative activities and hands-on training are emphasized in classroom lectures. Practical training is the hallmark of such traditional education. Replacing this with MOOCs will eliminate the requisite interactive learning environment for most students. Few, if any, will be able to learn of their own volition. There is much from thousands of year old ancient teaching techniques (e.g., the Gurukula system of ancient India, Greek traditions of inductive and deductive learning, Chinese and Buddhist methods) that emphasize the teacher-to-student knowledge transfer via face-to-face interactive learning. Such learning techniques are well proven and effective. MOOCs will not be able to effectively supplant such well-honed methodologies via impersonal learning techniques. However, MOOCs is an effective way to reach a wide variety of students within a short period of time. Indeed it is the extraordinary cost of traditional education that is deriving the MOOC revolution. If, however, the desire to make profits is taken out of the evolving MOOCs learning environment, this might be considered a weak alternative to traditional learning. I welcome comments on this.