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Originally Posted by Mitmo01
There can be a problem with Auto-Didactical thinking though....and that is there is no one bit yourself to challenge or critically analyze what it is your learning. ie--Hitler was an Auto-Didact.
If people want to learn they can, the problem is that you also have to be challenged and engaged and to do that is the function of higher education.
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Mitmo:
I am not at all saying that auto-didactical thinking is ideal. Not at all. Given my druthers higher education--through the graduate level--would be free to all comers who qualified. NOTHING beats classroom instruction. And absolutely one needs to be challenged and have constant engagement (which is why I miss one of my colleagues, Russell, so much--he is a smart man, and just slightly to the far right end of William F. Buckley. We would have the *best* discussions at work). My parents did us a great service by shredding, night after night, sloppy arguments we brought to the table--particularly as opinionated teenagers. 
I merely wanted to say that it is an option--if not to be fully educated in a subject, one can get a grounding in it.
Cheers
Aj
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