Link: Michael Geist - Why Is There No Canadian MIT?. There is something fascinating (and important) with respect to what MIT (and the consortium) is doing vis-a-vis higher education. It is called "accessibility" to the masses. The dissemination of knowledge, and the rate by which it is being disseminated, could be what makes (or breaks) some nation states in the 21 century. Don't believe me, just see who is following MIT's lead--China of course, and India and the rest of the developing world are soon to follow. Why? Because the rules of the game have changed (again) and these countries are seizing the opportunity. Thank God that MIT is right here in the good 'ole USA, because where there is no vision, the people (eventually) perish...
Victor Hugo (I think) once said: "if you build more schools then you can build less prisons." We should be investing heavily in education, but instead our politics is still dominated by the type of thinking that leads more toward prisons and less toward education. To borrow from JFK: "progress is a nice words but progress has its enemies."
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