Dragon lizard: "You MUST collect guru dakshina-fees in obeisance to the teacher, at the end of the course," Lack of monies also continues to significantly inhibit World University and School's growth, Donations in yoga classes in the United States might be similar, Annual Giving to WUaS not only by individuals, but potentially also by assessments or kinds of quotas, perhaps from universities in other countries/nation states, in addition to governments and companies, for access to non-commercial Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW, which they also translate into their language, such as into Indonesian

A friend and WUaS Finance and Art advisor in India writes:

Hi Scott, you MUST collect guru dakshina-fees in obeisance to the teacher, at the end of the course. If everything is given free, even if it is gold or diamond, no one will know it's value.

After all, you teach everyone to fish and some fish, should be given to the teacher- 

here the WUS.

Best wishes,

Prasanna.

Hi Prasanna (in Chennai, India) and Universitians, 

Thanks for this great suggestion (as well as the modal verb MUST), since lack of monies also continues to significantly inhibit World University and School's growth. Thanks to you too for your role as financial and art adviser to WUaS, per the letter I prepared for you for your return to India when you visited me here in Canyon, California, for Thanksgiving in 2011, while staying with your son and his family, not far from Stanford University. 

And while donations might make students value the MIT OCW-centric education more than free MIT-centric education, however, I have the sense in other, different, educational contexts such as in Germany, Scandanavian countries and Japan, where highest quality university is paid for by the state and taxes, and not individual fees, that students do value the education as part of an ethos or culture of learning; this is the model MIT-centric WUaS is leaning toward. WUaS is also seeking overachieving students, and planning to reward them with a great, all-languages, STEM-centric university, and great faculty, so that their paying fees might not be what's at stake in terms of an inner investment in/valuing of their learning. (The eventual ability of students to pay taxes, thanks to the educational degree and knowledge-generation potential, will also be a different way of paying fees).

What are precedents in the non-India teaching and learning context for 'guru dakshina-fees' ? 

Donations in yoga classes in the United States might be similar. 

And for the free 'Society and Information Technology' course I'm planning to teach this autumn (http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2013/07/free-open-society-and-information.html), as precedent for other classes at MIT OCW-centric, for-credit WUaS classes in the autumn of 2014, what would the language be? Something like "WUaS will seek donations at the end of this 15 week course" - emphasizing the 'donation's' word for both tax agencies like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), etc., and for Creative Commons' licensing reasons? 

Other precedents and other language? Further ideas? 

Thanks again!

With very best wishes, 
Scott

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Another modality of this "guru dakshina-fees in obeisance to the teacher," or WUaS revenue stream, in lieu of fees, I hope, will be in the form of annual giving, not only by individuals, but potentially also by assessments or kinds of quotas, perhaps from universities in other countries/nation states, in addition to governments and companies, for access to non-commercial Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW, which they also translate into their language, such as into Indonesian. 

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