“MIT’s entrepreneurial impact is so great that, according to a 2009 study conducted by the founder of the Trust Center, active companies created by its alumni bring in a combined revenue today of as much as $2 trillion. That would make those companies the equivalent of the 11th-largest economy in the world.”
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/2012/10/mit-important-university-world-harvard/
The Lessons of Film School, Distilled In One Speech
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-lessons-of-film-school-distilled-in-one-speech?mbid=rss
“Your peers can’t see you, which makes it difficult to see yourself.” – Seth Godin
https://medium.com/@thisissethsblog/will-this-be-on-the-test-237ae9cc53b4
“That conversation was typical of our highly educated tribe — for us to imagine something is good, it has to be good for us.”
“College is run by those of us who did well in college, so we tend to underestimate the harm we do to students whose lives aren’t like ours, harm created not out of malice but habit.” — Clay Shirky
https://medium.com/@cshirky/the-digital-revolution-in-higher-education-has-already-happened-no-one-noticed-78ec0fec16c7
Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones – An engineering professor takes online-course critics to school.
http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-virtual-classes-can-be-better-than-real-ones
Path to a free self-taught graduation in Computer Science!
https://github.com/open-source-society/computer-science
“…the high price of books was the original intent of lectures and the difficulty of communicating new research was the original reason for seminars…”
“As long as you can get your foot in the door, being autodidact practically puts on you on equal grounds with a college grad.”
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/the-secret-of-education.html