I have done a fair amount of self-study, but I see that I can’t make use of that effort any further since other people are not aware of what I have done.

Lastly, it also makes a big difference that you start with the discipline that is taught by going through a degree or two in the standard fashion. Once you have good habits and self-discipline, then I love the idea of self-study.

Thank you Google thank you Vinton G. Cerf.

Salman Khan obviously enjoys teaching for its own sake, the way I do, and is happy just to do it well and make it freely available to others.

I myself do the same thing with my blog “Interlingua multilingue,” which uses Interlingua as a bridge into learning its source languages (Latin, English, French, Italian, and Spanish/Portuguese, considered as a single language).

It is unfortunate that the Internet lacks an equivalent of the bibliographic control of large research libraries, where it is much easier to find books on the kinds of things you are interested in.

With the World Wide Web, I have found, this is a hit-and-miss proposition based on being lucky in thinking up the key words and phrases you need to search for the things you are interested in.

(This is especially true of YouTube. Youtube also makes it very hard to find every single part of, say, a twelve-part video series.)

It would be nice if this hit-and-miss system could be supplemented by a system that resembles the controlled vocabulary of the subject-heading indexes used in the construction of library catalogues.

The principal problems of libraries are storage and access. The Internet is excellent on storage, but its access capabilities are still quite weak.

Harleigh Kyson Jr.

May I also suggest a site for anyone who may be interested: The Gutenberg Project. Books in the public domain can be downloaded/shared/read.