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Education, disrupted: MIT to offer free, online courses to all

If people translate this course ware in many languages I could see many impromptu schools spring up in impoverished areas around the world. If it does it could really shift/even the balance of power for the next generation.

Exciting times.

Private institutions aren't a disruptor. The shameless greed behind laughable growth in tuition rates is. The short term "get all I can while I can" mentality has grown comically transparent, as has the reality that this is completely unsustainable. Raising tuition- or any cost- at rates far exceeding the rate of income increase is just asking for collapse. All ok for those who can profit from it now, though, but there's our precious capitalism for 'ya.