EMT lectures at MIT Open Course Ware (OCW)

Its damn disappointing after they hyped they were going to "give away" "free" course information several years ago that's all they have.

Politicians take our tax dollars and get jobs as university presidents, professors and bureaucrats (the ones that don't become lobbiests) after they leave office. And then when some catastrophe happens, they raise money for scholarships for their children, which will get "legacy preferences", not because of merit, but because of accident of birth.

Thanks a lot MIT, I feel so damn grateful!

Would you trade your favorite government program if the government stopped taking half your paycheck, and stopped taking half of everyone else's (fed bureaucrats and educrats notwithstanding) paychecks, so the goods and services you paid for all cost half as much?

What is the opportunity cost of these parasites?

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Then stay the f*ck away from my alma mater. What have YOU contributed to the betterment of the world?

...Jim Thompson

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I have viewed two of the lectures and found them well done. Basic stuff, but nice demonstrations.

I suppose a few politicians have become professors by using their clout but that is hardly the norm in the US. I taught for 33 years at two universities and almost all professors had earned Ph.D.s and were into research or publishing or both.

I, for one, am grateful that they took the time to package the physics lectures and make them available. If they used my tax money to do it, that's still OK by me.

I'd love to pay no tax but understand the basics of running a country.

I don't understand this question. To the OP, thanks. It is a nice resource.

Let them stay the f*ck away from my God Damn f****ng tax dollars!

What have YOU contributed

The premise behind that statement is *an individuals worth is based on their social contribution*. That isn't communist, that is a fascist speaking! I know we hear all the time Americans are "hard working", but "hard working" for whom and why?

My contribution to the world isn't for you to judge Mr. Thomson. You Republican fascists think your stinking self-assessed virtue entitles you to judge the value of others, and appropriate, extort, and if they don't cooperate and follow your religious, sexual, food or drug preferences, destroy their time, talent and treasure.

But I've got news for you. You Republican fascists are as bad, even though less effective than communists when you make your judgments. You are not God, nor are you Nature, nor are you the custodian of the collective even if fools saint you or confer a diploma on you in some kind of corrupt, deluded popularity contest.

As President Bush likes to believe, freedom is God's (Natures) gift to rational beings, and it isn't for his fascist followers to judge my value with respect to the world or existence. In fact, numerous time Jesus Christ admonished his followers to love the poor, abandoned, lame and "worthless".

But you are no follower of Christ, are you Mr. Thomson? You are the ashes of the fascist theocracy the liberals have burned the religious camouflage off of during the 60's. At least you don't claim Christ as your own, and can condemn undermenschen without fear of being labeled a hypocrite!

Perhaps my ultimate value is calling you a fascist and Hill a Bolshevik, and publicly stating freedom isn't serving a collective organized according to clergy-defined religious dogma, or academia-defined socialist dogma, but serving your own interests in a civilized context.

I live for myself and to enjoy relationships with those I exchange value with, not to serve and sacrifice for whatever jihad de-jour elites contrive to enrich themselves with at my expense. Expecting your neighbor to live for you is theft, and believing in your judgments regarding their worth, and getting your fascist friends to discriminate against them is theft of spirit, and neither is civilized.

Perhaps, but near totally useless for most citizen taxpayers. A gap in your knowledge would have to exist for that specific content, because no preceding or following lectures are presented. Useful as a refresher, useless to aid those that might be given a truly free education.

But MIT doesn't want that. The fascist elite don't want peasant competitors, they want to assign "legacy preference" scholarships.

If they were a privately funded institution that didn't take federal loans or grants or do federal contract work, I would have no complaint. But there not, and I find there "charity" a despicable camouflage for looting parasites.

I should use more exclusive language to distinguish the scholars from the parasites. Every so often I find high-profile offenders, like Al Gore, Donna Shalala, et.

Opportunity cost.

Surely you understand government that is a proscriptive, positive good taxes you to your tolerance while its bureaucrats pay themselves and their cronies the most they can, as in any oppressive monopoly. And limits your freedom as it manages you for its own convenience.

Functional capitalism competes to give the customer the most value while consuming the least profit, because customers vote with their dollars, unlike taxpayers that are extorted by armed tax collecting government goons.

You don't know all the good that you are missing out on, because government is devouring the time, talent and treasure efficient private enterprise would flourish on. That is opportunity cost.

I'm afraid that I have to disagree. I would estimate that there is a complete

1'st year undergrads course in Newtonian mechanics and Electromagnetism - and moreover it is being made available to anyone with an internet connection - regardless of country.

Yes, it is disappointing that there aren't more videoed lectures in other topics. I'm sure that there are some other good lecturers there.

There is other good stuff on the site (like materials for learning Mandarin for example) - but it costs money and effort to do this and there, no doubt, is a shortage of both.

Whatever, you cannot deny the quality of those physics lectures - and the mathematics lectures, though less spectacular, are important too.