I've read in several places that Debussy owed Satie more than he acknowledged in assisting him on his path to radicalization. Satie himself always felt inferior

I've read in several places that Debussy owed Satie more than he acknowledged in assisting him on his path to radicalization. Satie himself always felt inferior to Ravel and Debussy as he lacked a formal musical education (which may itself have been a major contributing fact to his uniqueness)