The old maxim "you get what you pay for" has always seemed a bit absurd to me in the confines of education. Knowledge is simply free and due to speed of technology, abundant. With a few cameras and microphones why couldn't we all benefit from the world's greatest teaching minds?

And if time teaches us anything it is that the willing rarely align with the bodies present as it relates to higher education. I wonder what the percentage of people who enter college to sit down and learn is anymore? College seems to be a cultural approved experiment which allows kids to test the social waters of your interests and independence. The irony here is that this is the first time in the history of humanity that "growing up" has been defined at such late a date. A hundred years ago if you didn't know what you wanted to do with your life, and you were 20, you were rightfully a social outcast.

Autodidacts are rare in the United States, so if you are one of those elusive folks that can enjoy education on your own terms, dig in and enjoy this link:

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