Topic: Self-education. (Read 2328 times)

It's definitely possible to become a specialist with going to an educational institution. There are so many resources available these days! It's getting easier and easier. The internet has change the world and it continues to do so. There are many completely free courses available from some of the best universities professors in the world. There are wonderful forums like this one where you can ask people questions and get answers from people who know what their talking about. Of course, you have to keep in mind that the world may require some kind of official certification depending on what you're interested in. If you want to become a doctor, you're probably have to go to medical school if you ever want to practice it, but you could be a very knowledgeable specialist without it.

Exactly, & the people who need guidance and direction are probably more suited for a formal education like through college/university.

But I always recommend people TRY self education before spending thousands on a degree. I see too many people going into formal education with complaints such as "I don't really get a lot from the professor" or "I end up Googling it and figuring it out without their help". I think highschool students should be taught the perks of self education compared to a formal education, instead of just brain-washed that formal education post highschool is the only way to go.

Self Education is a very individualized skill. Some people can take the bull by the horns and dive right in, and become very accomplished with whatever is available to learn.

Others need help, such as guidance and direction.

The most important factor is motivation. If we get inspired internally, directly from our soul's need, then we can accomplish a lot through our self-education. This includes looking to others to guide and direct us when the motive is coming from our internal drive and soul's desire.

One of my professor told me that he kept on buying programming books so he can just master something that he didn't know before.

Studying before was harder than today, no forum to ask, no tutorials online and you'll have to study very well which is really the meaning of studying hard before.

Yeah exactly. If you're a doctor, please go to a univesity/college & learn from trusted professionals. But at the end of the day, the risk in messing something up at a junior level in programming is very minimal.

My only concern about online programming courses is when people come out of them thinking they know a lot, and they don't know their limitations, which is huge. They begin to apply for contracts which require massive security considerations. They end up being way over their head at first (and I'm sure the same applies to other situations), and then they can actually produce harm to a corporation.

Trial/error all the way, just not in something mission critical as that.

If you do talk about programming yes the internet really is a good platform to learn. But on the other fields especially history or medicines there are alot of lies.

Tho when it comes to programming since that is a trial and error we can really play with the codes. Plus good thing is that there are good forums that talks about it like stockoverflow.

Oh I completely agree. Like I started programming when it was okay (not bad, not great). You still had to rely on docs, and books for a lot of the knowledge.

Now-a-days there are so many different classes/services online, the learning curve has significantly shot way down.

For sure it was harder before when you are starting.

There are forums and other websites that you can now rely and depend to what they are teaching to know more about programming.

100%, I learnt programming from the age of 14, just starting reading with books, demo-ing out the code, and then building virtually any program/site I wanted to, even if it was just for fun.

Now I'm actually a professional developer with 9 years experience.

I think the Internet is the best tool for free knowledge, and has fundamentally changed the requirement for many careers.

Any education requires "self-education". You can't really force someone to relearn something (short of educational camps).

Using third-party providers, such as teachers (irl), youtube videos, Wikipedia, or other sources to further your education is possible. Normally, people take the more "official" way, but there's plenty of honary degrees issued from plenty of universities.

I have read inspiring success stories and testimonies of some professionals that they have learned their professions through self study before application.

And with those shared stories that's very possible to become specialist but you have to gain experience too.

Of course, you can, you have the Internet and you have those disc space. You can get almost every resource on the internet even you can get the video lessons and the internet. Still, you think that you do not have the authority to learn yourself. Come on it's not 1970 anymore people can learn whatever they want in just blink of the eye. I am interested in programming and I just start learning at around two years ago from the internet because I know that I cannot rely on my local college to teach me well. Even if I pay the Educational Institutes they only teach me the half of the syllabus which they had. I have managed to learn a lot from the internet and with my hard work, I have practiced that each day until I am very comfortable with what I have learned and I can use it to make my life easier.

It can work if the person is curious, smart and seek for real knowledge, not status. But it's not that easy... With a tutor, teacher, master it can be more didactic and this another person can help you to expand your horizons, he/she can present you informations you didn't have any notion before (and that you would never have any notion with pure self-education, by yourself). If you can have help from somebody else to educate yourself, don't waste this chance.

Unfortunatelly for some people self-education means to be self-sufficient, and no one can be self-sufficient in this world...

Somewhere I subtracted the idea that to become a master in something you should do this for 10,000 hours. Fully agree with this. If you just read and watch, it will not give you much. You need actions.

Self-education is a powerful thing, but sometimes it's hard to force yourself to learn something.

I would still rather choose to go to the library and find a better books than searching craps most of the time on the internet.

Or just to know nothing than to be a dumb believing most of the lies that can be found on the internet. That is the reason why most of us are too lazy finding real informations

Self education

Self education is a task that we trying to understand by ourselves hadn't learn before.
For an example everyone learn  by them selves, think when how babies speak the words
First they listen very carefully and gain in mind that what they listen and speak back.

What we hear what we see after a process memorized  and coming with a answer will
can be discube as self education.

Yeah information nowadays are very easily accessed that you don't even need to spend a lot to make yourself knowledgeable in a lot of areas. This generation has progressed so fast that the current educational system may be outdated in a few more years.

It is important as regular school education because if you dont have one of them you be confused in this world ...,many things that you learn in school is just basics of your knowledge, so to expand you knowledge you need self education to learn even more and not to mention that many thing that you learn in school is falsehood as you learn trough self education in your life .I learn that many of things that i learn and heard from other people a lot of that was lies but if you are smart youll never be satisfied with one answer, one side of story and youll never belive just from one source youll always want to make your own resarch so thats why self education is so important

Education is a basic need of Man. It is a must for all kinds kinds of development. In fact, education is the main precondition of progress and prosperity. So,we must ensure self- education.
Formal education begins with primary education. So,compulsory primary education should be ensured. Every child must go to School. No boy or girl should remain outside. We can do discription self education with education for all example. Child labour must be stopped. The government should help the poor parents financially. Social awareness about the importance of education be increased.
We must try to minimize the number of dropouts. Female education mist be ensured. We all know that half of population of Bangladesh is woman. We can not expect an Educated nation without educating them. So female students should be encouraged more and more. Only educated mothers can present us an educated nation. If all the mother are educated, no Child can be deprived of the light of education.
Access to education is the birthright of man. No discrimination should prevail here. The poor should enjoy the same facilities as the rich. In fact People from all walks of life must be given the same advantages.
"Education for all" is now an international slogan.The present World needs liberal hands, heads and hearts. It is education that makes a man liberal. So,good and quality education must be given to children from the very beginning.
So we can say from here that self- education is an importance part of life.

The human mind has an immense power that not all individuals understand. Most folks are happy enough with the education we tend to get in class, however, we will achieve much greater heights when we get out of those boundaries.

Since all resources are out there, there's no reason to delay your journey through self-education any longer.
I will say it all depends on you.. what do you really want to archive?
If you need your handheld or need outside influence to get you to do the necessary work, then a formal path is much more suitable because in the professional world, there are no advisors, no helpful classmates. In short, no one cares what happens to you.
But if you’re planning to sustain the motivation to finish a deep self-education course of study, the application should be placed 1st. Otherwise, it's too straightforward to lose sight of the large image and stop learning.
Perhaps what is most important to understand is that to succeed you must be confident in your ability to learn new things. Whether your self-taught or university taught, you need to be able to take what you’ve learned and apply  it, and there’s no better way to do this than through real-life experience
One of the first steps to smart studying is going the extra mile in your learning, The upside is that if you have truly found your passion--your thing--in life, learning and becoming an expert will be fun and exciting. If this is not the case, you have made the wrong choice