I agree that knowledge should be spread and the daat should be transferred from mind to mind to generate some prodcutive impulse and will help every individual to grow individually for their own goals etc this is my version when i am talking from a learner point of view. But to be business concern apart from knowledge sharring products that are churrned out after a creative fight from a group of talents. Simply copying such type of creative wrok for dupliccation for small amount of revenue is that should be appreciated.

Firstly yes, only when people value knowledge can it be properly put to use, irrespective of whether the acquisition was free or otherwise. there have been many cases of free education that has been improperly imparted or imparted to people who do not value it enough, resulting in zilch or in some cases anti-socialism. A case in point is the “free” primary education system run by the Government of India and the various State Governments.

Secondly, yes it is not possible to support the burgeoning school-going population as well as maintain quality, when the revenue is nil, unless like you said, more and more people get into philanthropy.

However, I would like to put forward the following thoughts on this matter;

Firstly, I was not referring to the education system anywhere in this post. I have referred to the education-system being free elsewhere on this page http://onesinglecandle.wordpress.com/about/

and have specifically not mentioned it in this post for the simple reason that though I have received free education, I don’t believe with all my heart that the quality of education I have been lucky to receive can be matched if the same is provided on a much larger scale, after all teachers don’t come off a factory assembly line.

Having said that, let me point that although the Government has failed in its task, it is not too much of a fantasy to suggest that large corporations adopt a certain number of schools in every district and maintain and run them, free of cost, in return for certain tax concessions(i.e. upto the amount that the Government itself would have spent on such an exercise). While it would ensure that education remained free, it would also bring into picture the quality of education, because of the image of the corporations concerned.

Secondly, I was only referring to the free knowledge of works authored by people. Meaning the many sites where people post their views, opinions, stories, poems, research work etc. I wanted this to be movement where even things like stories and research work can be free for everybody to replicate or reproduce in whatever form they want.