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Published: November 17 2010

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As "company / non-profit founder", albeit currently a d.b.a., the web site builder and chief content author and publisher as of this writing, I get to define the Mission Statement for the site and for the organization of collaborative volunteers and paid workers -- should there eventually be one.

Here are some of my motivations:

• I believe EDUCATION is a service and a human right, a necessary and sustainable social-value that should be in all instances of the highest quality and available to everyone, anytime, anywhere.
  Although this may seem to be an unattainable ideal, the ideal is possible to "approximate" in less than a decade using the Internet, existing "brick and mortar" educational institutions and lower-cost structures suitable for individual, small and large group education activities.
• I believe EDUCATION is not and should never be a special privilege provided by a free-to-exploit market educational-system narrowly and problematically focused on ONLY gaining the greatest profits for the least effort and expense of the providing organization, and a privilege only available to those with the increasingly rare ability to pay their prices.
• I do not believe that for-a-fee education is very often equitable or affordable to those who most want or need it.
• I believe that much that is free and low-cost education in the west is mediocre education and training.