MIT openware courses
Now this is impressive. In todays world of over-arching capitalism comes a concept that education should be and would be freely AVAILABLE for all. In ancient Hindu mythology, a story goes that a non-brahmin wanted to learn archery from the great guru Dronacharya, but could not because the royal guru would teach only the elite kings. However, the young student whose name was Eklavya was not deterred. He built a mockup of the guru and practised for years and became really good. When Dronacharya got to know of this, he came to the student and asked him for Guru Dakshina (or fees for his tutorship). Eklavya said that he would give anything to the guru. Do you know what Dronacharya asked him? He wanted Eklavya to cut off his thumb and give it to him. Why he did this is a seperate story.. but the fact of the matter is even in ancient times, education was never free. You had to always pay a price for this.

However, MIT has come up with this great idea for a free educational resource open to all. Maybe the Eklavyas of this world can finally sign on for free education.