HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: A student on Stanford Free Classes. “Stanford ‘free’ classes aren’t free. Stanford students have to pay for them. The fact that I’m paying for them doesn’t bother me, the fact that people who aren’t paying for them have changed the class more than the ones who have, does. I’m sorry, but if I’m going to have to pay $50,000 a year to go to Stanford then the classes should be tailored to fit the students – not a working professional who wants to learn a little machine learning on the side.”

UPDATE: Reader Cindy McNew writes, cruelly: “You mean the person doing the paying, kinda like a, what’s the word, taxpayer, wants a say in the service that’s offered to others on his dime? Wow, what a concept.”