HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Gales Of Creative Instruction. “The Think Tank world of free education is a separate topic that deserves a separate column in and of itself, but suffice it to say that you and your iPod (or desktop) can listen to the smartest people in the world give interesting lectures on the most important topics for free, or you can pay lots of money to hear an inarticulate and resentful grad student ladle out early 1960s French intellectual fads in one of collegedom’s cavernous freshman lecture halls at a time of his, not your, convenience.”