Name: 【TEDx】Can you get an MIT education for $2,000?: Scott Young at TEDxEastsidePrep
Uploaded: 2014-06-14T16:51:18.000Z
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If you've been watching the news lately, have probably seen photographs like this.

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because their government is cutting subsidies to education.

getting a college education doesn't cost what it used to.

If you graduated more than 2 decades ago,

it now costs students over two and a half times

and that's in real dollars for any economists in the audience here.

On one hand the cost is becoming harder for both,

But in the other hand employers are demanding

They want employees with complex analytical skills.

The world now runs oot of what we dig out of people brains

But what I want to suggest is that maybe we've been looking in the wrong place.

We've been expecting change to come from schools and governments,

I'd like to share my story and suggest that maybe

an education doesn't need to be expensive

I managed to narrow down my choice in major to two choices:

with the other you get to build technologies.

And these two are not mutually exclusive.

After all Bill Gates was a hacker before he built an empire. (Laughter)

But in my school I could only major in one.

and did a careful rational cost-benefit analysis.

I had this longing for the path not taken.

I really wanted to learn computer science.

But going back to school didn't appeal to me

I didn't want to postpone my life and rack up debt,

Then I remembered that Universities like MIT, Harvard, Stanford,

had a habit of putting up classes online for free.

I've done a few of these before and then a thought occurred to me.

If you could learn a class, why not an entire degree.

Would it be possible to get an MIT education in computer science

the complexities and objections that may raise

so going to the MIT is a lot more than just what you learn in the classroom.

So how can you possibly hope to replicate something

You get the wait staff, elegant decor, the fancy french wines.

You're paying for a complex and multifaceted experience.

You get networking with your intellectual peers,

research opportunities and credentials from elite institutions.

And you know what, sometimes this system works,

but just as you probably don't want to go to a five star restaurant,

you probably also don't want to go back to school

So what mattered most to me,  was being able to understand

like algorithms, artificial intelligence,

And being able to implement those ideas in computer programs.

So I decided to make my challenge simple.

My goal will be to try to pass the exams an MIT student would do