US society has some important applications, roles, etc. for versions of relatively independent self-learning. Soooo, maybe somewhere in the teaching and learn

US society has some important applications, roles, etc. for versions of relatively independent self-learning. Soooo, maybe somewhere in the teaching and learning of K-12 there should be some emphasis, practice, role, encouragement, etc. for a start on self-learning. Examples: (1) At one time, and maybe significantly still, a huge fraction of learning about computer programming, and computing more generally, was just self learning. (2) At one time, the Web site of the math department at Princeton just stated that graduate courses were introductions to research by experts in their fields, that no courses were given for preparation for the Ph.D. qualifying exams, and that students were expected to prepare for the exams on their own. (3) Teachers who need to keep up in their fields and researchers who need to push their fields forward have to do some to a lot of the work via self learning. And it is easy to find more examples in owning a house, farm, etc.