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Jul 27 2011: You can't train people to be autodidacts. [view in context] 5916
Jul 27 2011: Effective learning is a combination of theoretical study and direct experience. One alone isn't enough. 5917
Jul 27 2011: There is little school can teach you that you can't learn on your own. The question is whether you have the initiative to do so. 5918
Jul 27 2011: An autodidact uses people in his own education, learning something from every person he interacts with. 5919
Jul 27 2011: An autodidact is the primary active force in his own education, vs. a "student", who is merely a passive receiver. 5920
Jul 27 2011: Formal education is a system of outsourcing responsibility for your own education. 5921
Jul 27 2011: An autodidact is a "grazer" of education, picking up skills and information wherever they can be found. 5922
Jul 27 2011: Most people make poor autodidacts because they lack intellectual discipline. They are easily distracted and waylaid. 5923
Jul 27 2011: Formal education is for mediocre minds without the discipline to structure their own learning. 5924
Jul 27 2011: Autodidactism should not be confused with data collection. You can collect a lot of information on a certain topic and not learn anything. 5925
Jul 27 2011: "Stay in school" is the best advice for most. Without that outside structure, they'll be watching TV all day. 5926
Jul 27 2011: There is a big difference between realizing, "Hey, I can learn this on my own!" and actually doing it. 5927
Jul 27 2011: A true autodidact, when stuck in school, refuses to go at the pace of the teacher but jumps ahead in the text to find out what happens next. 5928
Jul 27 2011: True learning is not about memorizing facts but about compressing ones knowledge into a smaller and more efficient package. 5929
Jul 27 2011: To the autodidact, the whole world is their classroom. No hour passes without a lesson learned. 5930
Jul 27 2011: Personal growth isn't picking a goal and following a straight line there. It's heading in a certain direction and looking for opportunities. 5931
Jul 27 2011: An autodidact is an educational opportunist. 5932
Jul 27 2011: An autodidact asks questions and listens to the answers. 5933
Jul 27 2011: He who learns only from the Internet, books and television may have assembled some facts but is inevitably missing some critical ones. 5934
Jul 27 2011: "Remote learning" is when you try to understand something from afar without direct experience. Your perspective will always be distorted. 5935
Jul 27 2011: You can read books, look at photos and study maps of a place, but you can never really know it until you go there. 5936
Jul 27 2011: Some of the most naive and ill-informed people are those who watch the news and read the newspapers every day. 5937
Jul 27 2011: Just because you read a lot of books and articles doesn't make you an autodidact. Where is your direct experience with the world? 5938Jul 27 2011: New philosophy video: "Autodidactism" http://youtu.be/R6kXQYtYXvE (10 minutes) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5939
Jul 27 2011: #### End tweeted essay: "Autodidactism" [view in context]
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