Free Courses at MIT

Diametrically opposed to Sheneva's posting about schools paying students to attend school and learn, is an approach by MIT. Again, from the book "Wikinomics" I found that MIT offers open source courses that can be downloaded for free. They offer these courses to the world's family of self-learners in order to advance knowledge and educaiton and to serve the world in the 21st century. The readings for one course that I peeked at had exceprts from the Gutenberg Bible right there for me to download and interact with the course material. How tempting is that for life long learners? How available to all those students who cannot afford to attend MIT, yet have brains that can handle this challenging material to enrich themselves, and hopefully the world through their new understandings? I wonder if we hook students by paying them to learn at first, if they will ever want to avail themselves of these rich resources? What about you? The web site is: ocw.mit.edu