Huge Endowments: what are they for?

<p>Needless to say, it didn’t get much traction.</p>

<p><a href=“http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html[/url]”>http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I will give MIT credit with their opencourseware concept.</p>

<p><a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html[/url]”>http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>They sort of figured out that they either couldn’t or didn’t want to have revenue based e learning – so they are just giving it away.</p>