People's Law School in Michigan -- Something to Emulate

I was so pleased to come across an article from August 23, 2011 in the Lansing State Journal (by John Schneider) about a seven week intro to law course sponsored by the Michigan Association for Justice. For $25, one can attend seven two-hour classes at Thomas M. Cooley Law School on basic subjects of law such as Constitutional Law, Elder Law (including probate and estate planning), identity theft, the fourth amendment, and employment law. This excites me. Unlike in some past generations, the law governs so many areas of our life that I think we fail our population when we graduate students from high school without a fundamental understanding of certain areas of our legal system.