He said it was OK but that he would rather be going to the university because the education he was getting was not high quality. This is an opportunity for us to literally bring the highest quality education to that soldier. Or to the ambassador from West Africa who told me of his people's hunger to learn, and thereby expand and improve themselves, as the country democratizes. Or the middle-aged worker who is now having to retool himself. Or the single parent on welfare struggling mightily for a better life.
Education is a springboard to freedom and prosperity.
It is the neutralizer of poverty, the equalizer of circumstance. It is the way up and the way out. Technology will pave the way for more people than has ever been possible before. People who until now did not have the access, the time, the money, the opportunity. Because of technology, higher education will no longer have barriers.