re: #198 Romantic Heretic

As one self educated, you can. But it makes things very hard. Those who are ‘properly educated’ regard self education as a put down. They spent tens of thousands of dollars on their education and here comes someone who learned by keeping their nose in a book and/or buying equipment and learning how it works.

It makes the ‘properly educated’ look bad in their minds. So they work hard to make sure the self educated person gets shuffled into dead ends in the system and if possible pushed right out of the field altogether.

It happened to me when I was a computer programmer.

George Washington was self educated.
Thomas Edison was homeschooled.
Michael Faraday was the son of a blacksmith who was apprenticed to a bookbinder and self-educated.
Benjamin Franklin was a dabbler who was able to retire and dabble full-time.
Two words: Abraham Lincoln.

That’s my feelings on self education.