high touch

high touch
 adj.— «“If we go high tech, we’re also going to go high touch,” he said, referring to what he said would be an increased contact between pupil and teacher.» —“Alexandria Proposes Elementary Magnet School in Science” by Lena H. Sun Washington Post Feb. 23, 1984. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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