Bill Gates on College
"Five years from now on the Web for free you'll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university," Bill Gates recently stated at the Technology conference in Lake Tahoe, Calif. "College, except for the parties, needs to be less place-based."
The billionaire philanthropist, who regularly gives away millions of dollars towards educational excellence, has strong feelings about the price of college education.
"After all, what are we trying to do? We're trying to take education that today the tuition is, say, $50,000 a year so over four years—a $200,000 education—that is increasingly hard to get because there's less money for it because it's not there, and we're trying to provide it to every kid who wants it," Bill Gates said.
"And only technology can bring that down, not just to $20,000 but to $2,000. So yes, place-based activity in that college thing will be five times less important than it is today."
Watch the rest of Bill Gate's comments below.
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Caitlin Muir is a Portland expat living in Texas. Expat is her favorite word right now. Just because it sounds nice rolling off the tongue. Caitlin has her BA in Journalism.
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First, living in Texas is awesome, isn't it? Second, I'm so happy to see the article link I gave CollegePlus! being shared with the rest of the CollegePlus! community. Goes to show that CP! is truly ahead of the curve.
— Chase McDugle Monday, August 16, 2010 4:54 PM CDT
Gates is the most famous college drop out in the universe and it's cool seeing his endorsement of the type of learning I'm understanding that CollegePlus! is involved with. Enjoyed the video and I'm enjoying watching this CollegePlus! thing evolve.
— Harry Monday, August 16, 2010 5:28 PM CDT
I agreed with everything he said except wanting to learn about Global Warming, sorry Bill, I'm not going to be brainwashed into the mindset that we have to lower the population to save "mother earth"
— Kyle Perry Tuesday, August 17, 2010 10:59 AM CDT
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