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One of the advantages of formal education over autodidact is that at some point 10-20 years later you realize you learned everything the wrong way, blame your teachers, and start to fix the damage. Self-taught people have no one else to blame but themselves, so they often don’t.
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Anything you self-learn has a slightly higher chance of being correct, but a much higher chance of going uncorrected if wrong. So net you end up wrong about a lot. If you’re lucky you build on more-right learnings.
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Autodidactic learning is best where the subject itself forces you into a strong trial and error learning loop, like an REPL. Otherwise the sense of rediscovery creates too much identity attachment to what you know.
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When you’re self-taught, you’re attached to every mistake that doesn’t obviously and immediately hurt you. What doesn’t kill you only makes you youer.
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I don't think thats true. Maybe in the autodidact way there is more chance to attach the knowledge to one self, but the same happen in the académic style. Look at all those examples of people not accepting a new theory just because it's contrary to the one they already have.