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I wonder if anyone can sit alone and study by himself. I remember when I was in secondary school and I decided to learn one full topic by myself. I struggled for over one month but in was not getting the concept. You will not believe this. Self-education is not an easy task. There may be some tip offs that you might need to get before everything becomes easier for you.

Self education is actually very common in this time, websites like CBTNUGGETS are there and they have a lot of tutorials for whatever that you may seek to learn.

Hell Yeah, You can definitely Be a great human by yourself. The Internet is the worlds biggest library and it has each and everything you need in life and even if you can not find the stuff you are looking for you can ask anyone to help you on that and you will get that help. We are at an era which was not even possible for bill gates or any billionaire. I learned to programme myself and now I get paid for teaching it to others.

Self-education is the morality of a human. No one can archive Self-education. It is to acquire the society,  from family, from counrty, to humans.Those who are Self-educated, are very polite, humbal, beautiful people of mind.

I have been taking online classes from udemy, and I have learned and applied a lot of stuff from them so I believe that this is possible.
A lot of people especially freelancers have become specialists just from self-education. They start learning the basics from others, then self educate.

People often forget that their own developmnet and success depends on their own. How much you invest in yourself, that much you will get in return and education plays very important role.
Today all possible education tools are available to anyone on the internet and other communication tools so there is no excuse for not learning. It only takes a lot of your will and time but education can be carried out almost free.
Don't ever forget that your knowledge no one can't steal from you and the more educated you are, the richer you are. And I don't mean in financial way.

being a surgeon or scientist needs a lab & peer checks so its highly unlikely that someone can accomplish those skills just by self educating. we live in a world full of leverage & one can utilize internet to learn some skill but being totally self educated specially on internet & having no other point of learning may not be ideal situation. real world application is important & different in many fields, theoretically whats written & how it can be done may turn out to be a different thing. unlike in sports, nobody 'taught' maradonna or pele the skills they had, what they had was pure instinct, skill & prowess of their own. so it differs in every aspect.

There is a lot of technology in the age of technology through which we can learn and publish our self-education. The first chapter of self-education learning is our parents. Then from school life we can achieve our self-education and make our future. Some tips for self-education. Prepare a studying environment. create your own studying space organized desk, a comfortable chair, a laptop, the books and notebooks you need and some pens/pencils/markers. Get a dictionary, Use an online dictionary like Merriam-Webster or dictionary.com or actual dictionary that you'll use when you're studying from books. Highlight, Get some markers for the prints and use the highlighting feature on your eReader to put an accent on the crucial elements of the text. Learn from different mediums, Do not limit yourself to a single source of knowledge; make sure to experiment and benefit from information in all forms. Talk to experts, Find people who are experts on the topics of your interests and ask questions. Nothing beats one-to-one communication with inspiring people. Study every day, Routine is important! Organize your learning schedule in short, frequent (daily) sessions that will keep you focused on the material. Don't assume everything you read is true, When you use different studying materials, some of them may be in contradiction to the things you already know. Make sure to get to the bottom of the issue by conduction an in depth research. Join online communities of learners and methods, You don't want to study in isolation, so make sure to find the right subreddit communities and Linkedln groups that will connect you to people you can learn from. Make learning your lifestyle, As you gain more knowledge and you start understanding how things work, you might lose your ability to wonder. Don't allow that to happen! Ask more questions and discovery new things every single day. Search for online courses, Many reputable free online courses on websites like Udemy, edX, and other popular websites. Set goals, it's important to develop a habit of learning. Set monthly and daily goals, and give yourself a motivation to accomplish them. Teach ! if you want a proof that you're gained enough knowledge - start teaching. You can become a private tutor, but you can also start offering you own online. Say YES to new experiences, Since you have the liberty to develop your own learning style, you have to infuse some practical experience into this journey. Find a way to implement everything you learn into your traditional education or the job you have. If we can achieve these self-education tips ourselves, then we will become successful people in life.

MOOC (massive open online course) is the best way to improve your skills. One can have high qualified courses by the best universities via using EdX, Coursera etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

It's a choice... It all about determination and courage you put as a person to stand out in a particular area of your endeavor. Do you want to know God? Then devote yourself in reading the Bible, pray and seek his face then He'll show forth. Do you want to make money..? Then find some material on finance and read, dare to put those things into practice then you'll get there. I believe in it so well.

If we're to believe that humans are born with a tabula raza (clean slate),  then self education takes a longer time to be achieved. Also,  human beings grasp topics differently and may need guidance in a particular area. Hence the importance of formal education

I believe this is more of how dedicated a person can be towards learning by him/herself. In our modern society there are plenty of advanced technologies and platforms which can help us innovate our lifestyles, it can even help us self-study. But why are there still schools and even teachers homeschooling people? The answer is simple, because we are easily drawn to pleasure, e.g. the pleasure we get from platforms that entertains us such as games, watching, streaming, etc. There are plenty of distractions that can lead to only procrastination. Without discipline and dedication self-education could not be possible. So for me, the answer is no, unless there is an inborn human which already understands by itself how things work in reality that it can actually self-educate without guidance.

I don't agree. All you got to do is just study. You get knowledge, you can develop a skill though skill or a talent there is a lot of people that became popular and better with just them no one teaching them. But I agree that with other people we became more better.


That is not self education that is a based on a experience education which we always do while we are growing old. There is a difference in that too since with all of that experience in the past, there are still some people who helped us out.


I guess you get it backwards. Teaching your teacher is not a self education. If you will be asking me to give an example about it? That will be passing the exam without going to school and just self studying in your room the whole semester though that won't make sense since if you do not need your teacher, why would you still go to school right? You are wasting your money for your tuition.

This thread has the 'virtue exam' feel described in the mod's sticky depressingly often.  I think that self-education is a great thing, but people need to be realistic for their own good.  It is probably not the best option for dumb shits.

Secondly, study in a lot of fields includes hands-on experience.  Without it, the rate of progress is severely retarded and success is unlikely.  This means that choosing a field where success is practical is important.

Software engineering is a good option because fairly state-of-the-art unix systems (for example) are easily available.  A datacenter sized storage array is not, but it is practical to emulate one for training purposes.  Many of the most widely used tools and techniques are 'open source.'

Contrast this with genetic engineering where one is unlikely to get to first base without access to a lab full of expensive equipment.  Compounding this problem is that most of the information representing the state of the art is secret.

For technical fields which involve expensive equipment, a pretty good option would seem to me to be to learn enough to make oneself useful sweeping floors and cleaning bottles in order to get a foot in the door.  Then focus on learning the more technical aspects while on-the-job.

I will also say that a technically tracked AA at a junior collages is cheap and it will force one to get through the basics of math, physics, chemistry, etc, and a certain basic amount of equipment is available when needed.  In some cases a community college will have a superior program to some of state universities in the lower division levels.  This was absolutely my findings at the schools I attended.  Community colleges also tend to cater to people who have to work for a living (and kids who have exhausted the potential of their high schools.)

The above is written from an American perspective and experience of about 25 years ago.  Some things may have changed and may not be applicable in other countries.  I sense that universities are even more focused on cranking out good little SJW's now then they were even back then.  The local CC mostly just wanted to instill the prerequisite knowledge to succeed in a transfer program it seemed to me, though this may have applied mostly to the technical track.

No matter what they do, a person will be better off and have more options if they can stay out of debt.  And relatedly, avoid other types of responsibilities (esp, a bunch of hungry kids to feed.)  I know of a bunch of instances where it was simply not realistically practical for a person to move upward in terms of education/skill development because they got themselves financially trapped.

Important point for those considering this route.

I can only speak from the perspective of the U.S., but as a rule of thumb, if you can make someone money here they will pay you.  But you have to get your foot in the door.  Many professional fields are closed off by regulation.  That is to say, you cannot legally practice without the right government issued paperwork, and that is impossible to obtain without a college degree.  Sometimes if one is knowledgeable about, say, construction, one can get a job as a bureaucrat, but that is low paid and most who have the potential to self-educate would probably find the work unrewarding.

My opinion of education in the U.S. and in a technical field is that getting a degree proves two things.  1) one has a certain minimal intellectual capacity (e.g, can get through differential equations, etc, which is little more than an IQ test in reality.)  and 2) one can stick with something for 4 years or whatever even when it is often boring and stupid and you need to deal with various levels of idiocy.  Both of these are valuable to a potential employer.  If one can demonstrate the ability to be of value without the degree, that is just as good (and probably better to the more dynamic enterprises.)  That is usually accomplished word-of-mouth, but one does have to get their foot in the door somehow.  And, of course, have the ability to be a worthwhile asset.

Most people who have the potential to self-educate would probably do better starting a business of their own.  And most probably do.

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Edit - follow-up:

A college degree means less and less as time goes by.  Many people who hold a degree and a government issued license to practice actually need help doing their job effectively from someone who has a few brain cells to rub together.  This is not exactly new.  In the 1950's when women were more excluded and men were the 'breadwinners', it was pretty common for the secretary to be running the show in white-collar offices and the executive for whom she worked.  Effectively she was basically the brains of the operation.  A similar dynamic is probably evolving where college educated morons will need hand-holding in order to perform.  Targeting a niche where that is practical would be a strategy.  At least as a phase of a self-directed learning program.  Just an idea.

It is possible to become a specialist by self-study, this is commonly known as self-taught learning.
You can learn the specialists you choose by utilizing existing technology such as finding out via the internet etc., or you can read the books and search for the opinions of previous experts.

Thus self-education is when you teach yourself something, a subject in which you have no or very little formal education. Self-education could possibly be learning about a specific TV series at your own time, because you are teaching yourself about a subject which you have had no formal education and you will thus become an autodidact in the subject of that particular TV series. Learning about electrical systems in order to repair your car on your own would also classify as self-education since you will be an autodidact in the art of fixing electrical systems in cars.

All the money I earned was due to the knowledge that I learned myself. I do not use the knowledge that I got at university

In my opinion, everyone can learn what they want, but what you should be thinking is the mastery, you can't perfect everything if you would not focus on just one craft. You will need thousands of hours before you could be considered as "master" on the specific field that you are into.

But, things like fixing your own things like your house, bikes, computer, I'm sure you can learn how to do it. Ever heard of "DIY"? I consider it self taught, but I can't consider DIY'ers as "specialist" that you are talking about.

There are also talented people who doesn't need someone to teach them, they could naturally enhance themselves by experience.

There are some instances that people are learning a lot of things by their selves and there is a lot of people that is famous because of that, it is a good thing still I think it is far more better if people can share their knowledge and skills to other people in order to attain and achieve more than you want to. The more people share the knowledge, the more they can contribute and help each other.