====== Online Education ====== What you can get by attending University: - knowledge and skills - the inspiration that can come from being around gifted professors and motivated fellow students - 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. =====Robert Sapolsky===== {{ https://www.edge.org/sites/default/files/styles/member-photo/public/member-pictures/picture-143-1491501783.jpg?300|Robert Sapolsky}} 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. ~CLEAR~ //Human Behavioral Biology//, 2010, famous course designed for non-biology majors, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL150326949691B199 | youtube playlist]] of 25 lectures =====Jordan Peterson===== {{https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Jordan_Peterson_June_2018.jpg/1200px-Jordan_Peterson_June_2018.jpg?300 | Jordon Peterson }} 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 ~CLEAR~ Personality and its Transformations =====Gilbert Strang===== {{ ::gilbert_strang.jpg?300|Gilbert Strang}} Professor of Mathematics, MIT * BA in Mathematics, MIT * PhD in Mathematics, UCLA ~CLEAR~ Calculus =====Salmon Khan===== Math Khan Academy High school and college math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry.