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Starvard University

The Farm

Starvard grows in the open. Courses are the crop: planted on purpose, tended often, and harvested by anyone who wants to learn. No tuition, no gates, just rows and rows of free learning. This page watches the farm and tells the truth about what is growing.

1262
pages growing at Starvard right now

114 free courses and 18 classics on the shelf, counted file by file. We count our pages. We never round them. The count moves only when the farm does.

1262 pages plantedGoal 500: reachedPlanted Oct 14, 2026

The fields

Every row of the farm, counted. The rows add up to the whole farm: 1262 pages in the ground. Every row below is a door: click it and go see for yourself.

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Courses
Free courses on real things. No application, no account, one click and you are in.
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Course quizzes
Short quizzes tucked inside courses, with a certificate at the end of the row.
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The Masters Library reader
The classics, shelved as pages: a front door, 24 book pages, and 1066 chapter pages.
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Pages in other languages
Comedy 101, planted in all fourteen other languages, from Spanish to Korean.
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Hubs and helpers
The front door, the catalog, the certificate office, the store, and this farm.
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The whole farm, top down

Every square is 10 pages on the road to 500. As of today, every square is planted.

PlantedSproutingStill soil

1262 pages planted. The road to 500 is complete: all 50 squares are planted, and 762 more pages are growing in the next field.

The library shelf

The Masters Library lives right here at Starvard, in the Clear Reader: great books, free to read, with free audio for listening while you read. Counted as books, the shelf holds 19. Counted as pages, they are the reader row in the fields above.

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Classics on the shelf
Every one shelved and ready to open.
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Classics with audio
128 audio chapters in all, downloaded and checked file by file.
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The Top 25

The watchlist. These are the twenty five pieces of Starvard we polish hardest: the videos, the audio, the courses, and the books a visitor is most likely to meet first. Same idea as the Top 100 over at Clear Recipe. If it is on this list, it has to be really good, and we keep an eye on it every week.

1The Starvard FilmVideo · 34 seconds, the whole ideaVideo 2Compound Interest, the LessonVideo · The Money Index Card, with captionsVideo 3Starvard Radio: How AI WorksAudio · the opening lessonsAudio 4A Christmas Carol, Full AudioAudio · all 5 staves, LibriVoxAudio 5Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, AudioAudio · all 12 chapters, LibriVoxAudio 6The Great Gatsby, AudioAudio · chapters with narrationAudio 7The Time Machine, AudioAudio · chapters with narrationAudio 8Learn PianoCourse · the most loved first courseCourse 9The Money Index CardCourse · personal finance on one cardCourse 10How AI WorksCourse · the field in eleven lessonsCourse 11Spanish 101Course · with the beta flashcards comingCourse 12Positive PsychologyCourse · the science of happinessCourse 13Python 101Course · with a certificate quizCourse 14Investing 101Course · with a certificate quizCourse 15Comedy 101Course · live in 15 languagesCourse 16Prompting 101Course · talking to machines wellCourse 17AI AgentsCourse · how agents actually workCourse 18ParentingCourse · the hardest job, helpedCourse 19Calming AnxietyCourse · steady, practical helpCourse 20Online BusinessCourse · the longest course on campusCourse 21NutritionCourse · eating, explained plainlyCourse 22Marketing 101Course · with a certificate quizCourse 23Pride and PrejudiceBook · the shelf favoriteBook 24FrankensteinBook · friendly in Cartoon ModeBook 25Great ExpectationsBook · the newest Dickens on the shelfBook

The greenhouse

What is sprouting next, in plain sight.