Self Education

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
- Isaac Asimov

One of the most underestimated acts today. Self-education in comparison to “official” stuff like faculty or PhD studies is not respected nor recognized. General public has to be freed off the invisible stigma which marks self-education as a dis-functional waste of time.

Self-education like any other fundamental day-to-day activity should be supported by institutions. It is ridiculous to institutionalise self-education, that would be like institutionalizing anarchism or founding the academia of sex and reproduction, which is nonsense.

Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes.

Why reinvent the wheel? Self-education is there and it’s functioning. Every individual have its own learning/living concept – that should be no less than respected. I think that affirmative, warm and open infrastructure is sufficient for non biased education and development. We are that responsible generation which has to act pro-actively and provide neutral&open by-design future environment which respects the value of self-education.

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Fine examples:

• Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
• Wikiversity
• MIT courses
• Stanford courses
• Berkeley courses
• Khan Academy (proof that one man can change the world:
  http://www.khanacademy.org/
  )
• Open Access
• 
  http://arxiv.org/
  
• 
  http://archive.org/details/bittorrent
  
• add your source here