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Get a free humanities education on YouTube. - by Jo Shaw

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As much as I criticize the internet and its addictive nature, I have to admit that we’re blessed to have it for one reason and one reason alone: The entire wealth of human knowledge is available at our fingertips. We were basically handed the Library of Alexandria, but infinite and not burn-down-able. There’s nothing you can’t learn about in this baffling yet miraculous landscape, and you can do it largely for free. On October 13, I posted a YouTube video on how to harness the platform’s powers for self-education. As I discuss in the video, YouTube is the social media site most able to replicate university education for self-learners due to the depth that longform videos allow and the caliber of educational organizations and creators who post there. Because I’m a magpie at heart (or maybe a rat), I went on a spree collecting every YouTube humanities course or lecture series I could find, and organized and linked them here for your reference. I’ve worked through only a few; I focused on

Get a free humanities education on YouTube. A Compilation of 40+ Courses & Resources Jo Shaw Oct 12, 2025 7,476 134 1,110 Share As much as I criticize the internet and its addictive nature, I have to admit that we’re blessed to have it for one reason and one reason alone: The entire wealth of human knowledge is available at our fingertips. We were basically handed the Library of Alexandria, but infinite and not burn-down-able. There’s nothing you can’t learn about in this baffling yet miraculous landscape, and you can do it largely for free. On October 13, I posted a YouTube video on how to ha

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