Once upon a time, when you want to be a good engineer or a good whatever, you go to a university, you take the courses, you read the books in the library and you attend the lectures of great people in the profession you aspire for.  In short, if you want to learn, you go to school.  The books are in the library and the teachers are in the classrooms.  

When your grandfather had a problem understanding or learning from a professor's lectures, he can read the book or ask his classmates (or senior students).  When your grandfather wanted to read a book or read about a certain topic, he would go to library and will get the resource material from the reserved section.  Too bad if somebody else has gotten to it first.  When your grandfather's SocSci teacher wanted to have a film showing, she will reserve the AVR, where the students will suffer the heat to watch a video on VHS.

Today's learning is so much different from your grandfather's education.  With the Internet, the whole world is your school.  There are so many ways for you to learn Computer Sorcery. If you want to learn through videos,  there's open course ware from MIT, Stanford or Carnegie Mellon on YouTube.  If you want to read about some topic you have a hard time understanding, Google is your best friend.  You have the blogs, the pdf's, the forums, mailing lists, etc.  If you want it, it's out there and everywhere.

At CodrSchool, we aim to expand your horizons beyond the walls of the university.  The university serves it purpose as was designed by your grandfather's grandfather.  We are not going to replace that.  But if it still wants to be relevant to today's world, it will have to change from the inside.