I don't see how this is different from pre-Internet where you could have gotten an education from your local library. This fact is even referenced in the popula

I don't see how this is different from pre-Internet where you could have gotten an education from your local library. This fact is even referenced in the popular American film: Good Will Hunting, where a janitor at MIT solves an unsolved mathematical problem and reveals that he learned every academic thing he knows with a library card.