> Yet my recently hired collegue insists he spent more time learning from Youtube than from lectures at "proper" university. There's a world of difference betw

> Yet my recently hired collegue insists he spent more time learning from Youtube than from lectures at "proper" university. There's a world of difference between learning from your own initiative vs being given a curriculum. If you're already in a field like coding, online stuff is absolutely the best way to find things out, because you already have structure. Once you have that, it's really only motivation how many topics you end up learning about. For kids, especially little ones, they don't know where what they're doing fits in. They're literally being told they need to learn the sounds for these shapes, learn how to count, and so on. They have no perspective on it for a good long while.