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Homeschooler here, and I feel like I have to set the record straight.

There’s a meme going around that says Harvard is going to launch “free college courses online, highlighting basic U.S. government, the Constitution, and how to recognize a dictatorship takeover.”

But here’s the thing:
Americans aren’t ignorant because they can’t afford college and haven’t been to college.
The Americans who are ignorant choose to remain in the dark.
College, or at least everything you can learn at an Ivy League school in classes, is free, online, open to everyone, and has been for years.

Harvard, MIT, and the other “top” schools have had these classes available for a long time — universities were some of the first to jump online and put all of their knowledge out there. From Plato to Python, you can learn computer coding, foreign languages and how to fight fascism simply by going to their website and following along.

Homeschoolers been using these as resources for years, but honestly, they’re kind of old-school and not the best way to learn.

You have to listen to the lecture or watch the video, read the textbook the professor wrote, take some multiple-choice tests for the quizzes, and then write up a discussion that no one will read — just like real college!

The only difference between the Harvard classes online and the ones in real life is $200,000 and a piece of paper that says you’ve taken the class. Yes, in real life, you’d get feedback and discussion. But there are plenty of places online you can get that, too, and in real life, if that’s what you want.

So, sure, it’s great that people are learning that Harvard offers classes to fight fascism.
What would be better is if people wanted to take the classes, or would simply read a book about it.

You want the best overview of American Government and Constitution and how to fight fascism that doesn’t require sitting through lectures?

Here’s a Crash Course. It works. You’ll learn everything you need to know.
If you want to say you took an Ivy League course in government, though, or in anything else, you can start with the links below.

Harvard’s website:
Want to take a class on the Constitutional Foundations of the Americane Government, taught by Thomas E. Patterson, the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard?
Here you go: It’s free, as they all are. It will take 2-4 hours a week and will cover Political Culture, Limited Government, Representative Government, Federalism, Civil Liberties, and Civil Rights.

Other classes you can take include “American Government: Constitutional Foundations,” “U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy”, and Citizen Politics in America: Public Opinion, Elections, Interest Groups, and the Media — all by the same professor.

You could also take: Prescription Drug Regulation, Cost, and Access: Current Controversies in Context, by three professors from Harvard medical and law schools, or “Justice,” one of the most popular classes at Harvard, taught by a government professor.

You could also switch to Princeton, and take “Bats, Ducks, and Pandemics: An Introduction to One Health Policy*”, try Yale and take a class on Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner,) or switch coasts and go to Stanford for AI, Python, or Accent Reduction for non-native English speakers.

MIT, of course, is also in on this: How about Wheelchair Design in Developing Countries?
Introduction to Nuclear Engineering?
Or maybe Childhood and Youth in French and Francophone Cultures.

No matter what you learn, you’ll be better off than when you started.
Will it help overthrown fascism?
It surely won’t hurt.