It occurs to me that of the 4 universities I have used, all 4 had open classrooms/lecture halls anyone could just walk into & learn, and all 4 had security mechanisms in the gym to stop people from using it. That says a lot about people's priorities.
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'In its majestic equality, the university permits the smart and stupid alike to go to lectures free, use its libraries free, and download from Libgen free...'
Generally speaking, the internet nearly equalized opportunity for learning, but long before that we have had public libraries doing much the same. If EoO was really that big a deal, we would have seen a large equalization of outcomes, but we didn't.
