Learning to trade on your own is long term compared to giving your capital to an individual or forex academy to trade for you which is short lived. The reason i say so is - if you learn to trade on your own, it becomes a life long skill that you are bound to become better at as long as there is constant practice from your side. Giving your capital to someone or an academy is not so advicable because if the academy or person doesn't teach you how to trade, if anything happens that stops the trading of this individual or academy, that may be the end of your trading career.
So like in most instances the best way to learn is on your own, after all most of the information that you are going to find on those courses is already online with the advantage that is free and you can save yourself that money and use it when you are trading for real on the markets.