Formal education is popularly attacked these days for its shortcomings (especially after the catastrophic failures and collusions that occurred during the globalist pandemic) mostly by people with little formal education. However and to its merit, formal education includes much more than simply information (and indoctrination), as it can also include
practical experiences,
mentoring from experts with 40+ years of successful experience,
innumerable corrections (ie, humility [for those who can receive and learn from corrections]),
treatment and management strategies and techniques, etc.
Self-education is great and necessary for everyone, whether they have studied in formal education or not. But for people who have not been through graduate/doctorate education, how will they know where they are along the spectrum of
simple familiarity?
competence and fluency, ranging from basic to intermediate to advanced?
mastery at a professional level?
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The seduction of self-education is that anyone can feel that they understand the material simply because they picked up new vocabulary and some ideas that were easy for them to grasp, but they will have also selectively skipped the parts that were more difficult and they will never have their perceptions and competence challenged by an expert (eg, professor) or system (eg, high-stakes exam) that will slap/humble them back to reality while they stay drunk with their self-impression.
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