"Promoting Truth and Common Sense in Accreditation"

Abraham Lincoln Wrote

"If you are absolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself the thing is

more than half done already.  It is a small matter whether you read with any

one or not. 

I did not read with any one.  Get the books and read and study them in their

every feature, and that is the main thing.  It is no consequence to be in a

large town while you are reading.  I read at New Salem, which never had

three hundred people in it.  The books and your capacity for understanding

them are just the same in all places.  (...) Always bear in mind that your

own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing."  

Lincoln's point is that learning is an individual process and has very little

to do with the institution where one studies, if at all.  

We must get over this "country club mentality" about colleges and

universities in this country.  

Traditional colleges and universities are a scam on the public.  They exist

to serve themselves, not students. 

When will we wake up to this reality?