> if you view higher education as gatekeeping for further life options (i.e. a career) then proctored exams make sense. But if higher education is just for learning, it's stupid to put all this gatekeeping around it [...] Let the cheaters cheat--they're only hurting their own learning

I wouldn't reduce student motivations to career vs. learning.

College can also be about aspiring to a better society, with the university as microcosm.

For example, a society in which people are honest, and have integrity.