While that does sound pretty damn good and is in the most part true, this doesn't mean that you'll end up with any kind of certification or anything (as far as I know), but it does mean that you will have increased your total amount of knowledge. Assuming of course that Sherlock Holmes wasn't correct when he asserted that that brain space is limited, and that when you learn something new, you are in fact at the same time forgetting something you once knew. But anyway, onto today's discovery. I was checking out the educational video links on Google, when I came across a short list of courses from the University of California Berkeley, which were not even there illegally. Shock! (the Professor in one of the videos I started watching told me so).
I then went to the source of these videos, the University's website itself and found a range of courses with complete lectures that I could listen into for free. The majority are to do with science, but what's wrong with that anyway? So far I have watched the first lecture in the series of Physics 10 - Physics for future Presidents (BTW I'm not saying anything by that at all), and I found it to be quite good. It wasn't too technical, which was surprising, and the pace was good so it was easy to follow. Another course of interest for me at least is "Introduction to Astronomy", not something that I would ever get out there and really pay money to study, but something that I have always been interested in. I can see a number of hours being spent on this website, but I know that I won't have to feel at all guilty about doing it, cos I'll be studying!
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