[nautilius]

Yeah exactly, because the only power of a university is that they keep the material they teach top secret. Just imagine if you could just go into a store and buy textbooks! What a crazy world that would be! Everyone would be a genius and have every degree imaginable!

[swiley]

That's the way its treated though; everyone assumes you don't know what you're doing if you haven't been to university because there's some top-secret stuff there that you couldn't have possibly found somewhere else.

[nautilius]

Here’s a clue: _finding_ the material isn’t the problem.