Yeah, I agree. You can sort of get that (in extended form) from the online course websites of certain universities, like Yale: http://oyc.yale.edu/courses Some of those are great.

Some Ted talks, especially in the beginning, were of course great. But at some point you run out of actual experts, and thus began the age of "thought leaders" [shudder]. I think the majority of TED Talks were bullshit even like 5 years ago…

I took it more as, she assumed that Forrest would go for her as the obvious celebrity/marriage partner. And was preemptively denying him out of distaste. Not realizing all along that Forrest never considered her for any such thing.