My friend Joshua Meyers, formerly a math student at U. C. Riverside, is now trying to develop new scholarly institutions: alternatives to universities.
He's gotten money from Jaan Tallinn and the Survival and Flourishing Fund to run "Let Me Think" - a 2-month in-person incubator project.
It'll happen this summer. In a while you can apply to join. Read more about it here:
https://let-me-think.org/scholarshipworkshop.html
Let me show you the schedule, and why he wants to do this.
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Here are the schedule and goals of this 2-month retreat.
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Here are some of the reasons Joshua Meyers wants to build new scholarly institutions.
For more details on this go here:
https://let-me-think.org/index.html
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@johncarlosbaez Perhaps this is an arrogant thing to say, but seems to me the university system doesn't have a monopoly on learning; just contributes enormously to it. Think I've learned a lot outside universities myself, even discovered new things and taught them to others. My interactions with university researchers have been overwhelmingly positive; on your crackpot index I score zero.
@radehi - Tell Joshua! It makes sense to me.