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The public should absolutely become educated and empowered. But what does that have to do with spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get stuff that you

• forapurpose 9y ago
  > stuff that you could get for free from a library or online You can't get a college education for free or online, or anything like it. Professors won't spend large chunks of time talking to you and working with you. You won't have access to labs, research libraries (including JSTOR), or other resources. You won't have a room full of peers to study with. (Online you can get some of those things, but not all and IIRC the research shows it seldom works out the same.)b