What you can get by attending University:

1. knowledge and skills
2. the inspiration that can come from being around gifted professors and motivated fellow students
3. personal contacts that will be helpful in your future career

As for the first item, “knowledge and skills”, you can get that online for free.

Educators are some of the most generous people. Any of them could make more money working for a corporation, but they choose instead to devote their lives to helping people.

Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at Stanford University.

• B.A. in Biological Anthropology from Harvard University.
• PhD. in Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University
• Field work studying baboons in Kenya. Four months per year for 25 years.

Human Behavioral Biology, 2010, famous course designed for non-biology majors, youtube playlist of 25 lectures

Professor of Psychology
University of Toronto

• BA Political Science, University of Alberta
• BA Psychology, University of Alberta
• PhD Clinical Psychology, McGill University
• practicing clinical psychologist

Personality and its Transformations

Professor of Mathematics, MIT

• BA in Mathematics, MIT
• PhD in Mathematics, UCLA

Calculus

Math

Khan Academy

High school and college math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry.