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The answer to mediocre engineers is less education? Doesn't follow.

• pmarreck 11y ago
  Education is force-fed, extrinsic motivation. Self-education is self-fed, intrinsic motivation. There is an arguably significant difference in the quality of the outcomes.
  • UK-AL 11y ago
    Only crap education. Good education gives you cool things explore, and experienced people to discuss them with. If I was completely self-taught I would not have as strong algorithm skills, operating system implementation knowledge or compilers skills.
    • pmarreck 11y ago
      Part of self-teaching may include taking formal online coursework voluntarily. For example I'm currently halfway through https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning