> Dare I say it, but it was better when a uni education was the preserve of the elite few. I agree, but there is fundamentally no reason this level of educatio

> Dare I say it, but it was better when a uni education was the preserve of the elite few. I agree, but there is fundamentally no reason this level of education need be restricted to the elite few today even if we ran the clock backwards on everything related to university. We live in the information age now. I can have access, for free, to all the educational material of any university in the world. I can't have access to their equipment[0], and I can't have access to their professors[1], but the only real problem with that today is that I don't get a piece of paper at the end that says I got a piece of paper from a university. [0] Could be solved with some kind of rental program I guess, at least for equipment that isn't ridiculously rare and valuable. [1] How much access do the students have these days? From what I hear, TAs do a lot of the actual interacting with students part.