The internet tubes have been rife with articles discussing a possible bursting of the "higher education bubble"...the idea being that shelling out (and even borrowing) $100,000 to listen to the likes of Peter Singer (see Nat's post below) may not be the best investment.

Case in point in our archives, the student who went into debt to the tune of $97,000 all so she could get a degree from NYU in....wait for it.....Religious and Women's Studies. Smart enough to get into NYU but not smart enough to calculate the likely rate of return on a degree that has zero value in the marketplace. Did I say zero value? I may be wrong about that. It may actually have a negative value in the marketplace because any Human Resources exec doing the hiring will take one look at her major and figure in a 30% probability of a future lawsuit against the company because...let's face it...all workplaces will be perceived as hostile by people like that.

Salman Khan has videotaped over 1,400 lectures on subjects everything from Biology and Chemistry to Money and Banking. Even SAT Prep. And he has posted them all on YouTube.

The whole point is that you don't have to go to college to get an education. Hell, for 80% of the non-technical (and 99% of the "social science" majors), the whole point of going to college is to fake an education.