The Modern University is Obsolete
- Tuition prices rise every year as academic standards fall.
- Students must enroll in many classes that don't interest them.
- Students are treated as "consumers" of an educational product made for mass-consumption.
- Many university math professors think teaching is "beneath them" and do not enjoy working with students.
- Many students in University are not interested in mathematics or curious about ideas in general.
- True mentoring or discipleship is impossible to come by.
- The rigid 16-week class semesters and degree paths create artificial barriers that prevent learning.
- Many universities do not have many different math classes offered due to low enrollment and demand.
A 21st Century Plato's Academy
The entrance to Plato's Academy was adorned with the phrase "let none ignorant of geometry enter here." Mathematical training both opens and sharpens the mind and connects us with a perfect, transcendent reality of Mathematical Objects.
"This, then, is what math is, recollection of the eternal ideas in the soul; and this is why the study that especially brings us the recollection of these ideas is called the science concerned with learning (mathematics). It's name thus makes clear what sort of function this science performs. It arouses our innate knowledge, awakens our intellect, purges our understanding, brings to light the concepts that belong essentially to us, takes away the forgetfulness and ignorance that we have from birth, sets us free from the bonds of unreason..."
-- Proclus "Commentary on Euclid's Elements"
Our long-term goal is to grow into a large, welcoming community of learners, teachers, and researchers of mathematics; to become the premiere location of higher mathematical learning, teaching, and research on the internet. The closest analogy would be to a martial arts dojo with practitioners, of various training and pedigree, learning and teaching each other.