I remember reading a (Golden Age fallacy?) account of the historical university of Nalanda in India, which was an historic Buddhist center of learning. It was n

I remember reading a (Golden Age fallacy?) account of the historical university of Nalanda in India, which was an historic Buddhist center of learning. It was not limited to religious and philosophical education, anyone could lecture and anyone could interject. Free board was available for all comers. It grew to become a well known international center of learning, and at least that part is factual. There are parallels in many places (eg. speakers corner in London, Greek and Roman popular history, etc.) but apparently voices and the general public are apparently not scalable. Now we have Youtube. Amusingly, recently corrupt bureaucrats have attempted to re-instantiate Nalanda. Despite gathering a huge amount of dirty money and land they've only put through a handful of postgrad students, and already have weathered multiple substantive allegations of corruption, sexual harassment, etc. Perhaps people are the problem.