Learning is like gardening. You plant seeds, maintain their growth and hope one day they become something beautiful. In schools you will find many well skilled

Learning is like gardening. You plant seeds, maintain their growth and hope one day they become something beautiful. In schools you will find many well skilled gardeners who know how to growth some beautiful parks, though this strongly depends on the soil they get, meaning you. If you don't work with them, or just don't have or get what is neccessary to grow well, then even the best gardener can't help you. On the other side, not every one want's to be a park, some people are happy being a bush, sometimes people are better with being a jungle and maintain their own beauty. Nobody can predict the future, nobody can tell what person you will be in 10 years, in 20, 30.. But probability-wise it's always a good idea to learn from those who already mastered the skills you seek to learn. Having a teacher, someone who can guide you, someone who forces you to learn the boring but still important stuff, is usually a good thing. Especially in a highly knowledge-drowning field like computer science.