> Those that can self-educate effectively are also ones that would thrive in a proper high education system. That might depend on what you define as 'proper'.

> Those that can self-educate effectively are also ones that would thrive in a proper high education system. That might depend on what you define as 'proper'. These environments are typically tailored toward a certain median individual and if you don't fit that median (above or below), you aren't going to have a good time. In my own experience, I can generally self-educate far better than what I've found in any traditional educational environment available* to me. I just can't deal with the snail's pace of concept introduction, the shallowness of concept exploration, etc. Everything moves so slow and I just tune it out. * What I've seen of MIT's open courseware appeared interesting and well-paced to me, but that's not a route that was ever available to me.