Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Nerd Notes: In Praise of Autodidacticism

Hooray for those who educate themselves! And also for those who don't depend on official education for all their knowledge development, whether they have university degrees or not.

Gentle reader, the last thing any intelligent person should do is depend wholly on academia.

Also, there's that great idea of "life-long learning," or in Libby Purves' more trenchant prose, "Anyone, at any age or eminence, who considers their education to be finished is an idiot."

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