Just as we advise our students, we dream big dreams.

In reality though there are limits to our capabilities, there are only so many steps toward our goals that we can accomplish with our current resources and staff.

"We knew that Google was going to get better every single day as we worked on it, and we knew that sooner or later, everyone was going to try it. So our feeling was that the later you tried it, the better it was for us because we'd make a better impression with better technology. So we were never in a big hurry to get you to use it today. Tomorrow would be better." - Sergey Brin

We will continue improving BFU, but progress is slow compared to the need of generating leaders for the netcohort age; leaders of character, persistence, and vision. We have overextended what we have, but there is still more to be done. Much of what we have done needs to re-done and improved.

Choices must be made, do we forge ahead with needed initiatives such as The Netcohort Institute, or do we re-visit our early free university efforts that now seem so naive. I am sure that it is more frustrating to students encountering our limitations than it is for us to face them.

I have discouraged students from taking the paid degree track, I do not feel comfortable with the value offered. Without income though we are unable to improve the courses so they offer the value we desire to present. We have received a couple of college donations, (thanks Matt) Those contributions have been gratefully applied toward improving what we offer our students.

This current slow growth period will be overcome, just not as soon or as smoothly as we all wish. We know that the existing educational bureaucracy is not preparing the adaptable leaders the Netcohort needs. We also know that we are not yet producing those leaders either - but we do have a clear path toward the needed tools.

For now those leaders are self taught, individually, in a very tough internationally networked environment. Far too many are lost or have their feasible dreams destroyed before they come to fruition. Many of these projects are needed - the path is however strewn with their broken shells.

We can not and will not quit, but we must apologize that we have not yet created the resources you need.

About the Author

Allan Wallace has decades of experience as a consultant and trainer inspiring visionaries and entrepreneurs.

Allan is Rector of Bastiat Free University.