Bill Gate --The Best Education will be on the Web

Compelling arguments apply for web access to university lecctures, printedtexts, recorded music , and visual material including films.  In the future a great deal more should become available on a free access basis.
 The difficulty of funding the free distribution of intellectual property such as university lectures, may be met by foundation grants, goverment funding (dangerous in some cases), private individuals, etc.
Until this conondrum is solved we may expet to see the free distribution  of interesting, stimulation and educational lectures to be less than optiimal as high fees for student acess are in essence one of the ways
univerities can finance their continued activity.
Perhaps Bill Gates should consider using some of his charitable funds to finance web
distribution andaccess to some of the best lectures.  The contribution to world-wide education couold be very considerable and of the greatest importance for students capable o self motivation, or encouraged to make use of such web distributed courses.  Universities could then specialise in the organisation of seminars and personal tutorials requiring personal contacts and personalised feed back.

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