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
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
Jordan 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
Personality and its Transformations
Gilbert Strang
Professor of Mathematics, MIT
BA in Mathematics, MIT
PhD in Mathematics, UCLA
Calculus
Salmon Khan
Math
Khan Academy
High school and college math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry.