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Here is a list of over 40 educational websites where you can get a free education

Here is a list of over 40 educational websites where you can get a free education
According to www.webometrics.info, there are more than 17 000 universities, but getting a degree in many of them is quite costly. Many students around the world(and their families) get into big debt or have to work over sixty hours a week in order to afford an education. Two-thirds of the US college seniors who graduated in 2011 had student loan debt, with an average of over 27 000 USD per person. Reading those statistics I can’t stop thinking about those words from over 30 years ago: With mass education, it turned out that most people could be taught to read and write. Isaac Asimov died in 1992, but if he could see the opportunities that the Internet is giving us in XXI century he would probably grin from ear to ear. Enough with the words, here is a BADASS list of over 40 educational websites: 1. 21. You can also watch free documentaries here. Credits:

India To Release Books And Research For Higher Learning On The Internet For Free Photo: Pixabay It was recently announced in India that all higher learning materials in the country will be made free and widely available through the internet. This is the type of freedom of information that activists like Aaron Swartz fought so hard to proliferate. According to Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, the effort is to give students more opportunity and more of an ability to study independently. “We made NCERT books available online for free through e-books and mobile applications a month-and-a-half ago. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also discussed improvements that can be made to the structure of schooling, so children are not just intelligent, but decent human beings as well. “You need to check whether you are doing better than yesterday. The internet has made traditional schooling obsolete, and students are able to use the many tools available online to learn the subjects that they are actually interested in, at their own pace. 1. 13. 21.

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