It always comes up at some point in discussions about education. Zuckerberg is a particularly poor example because he really doesn't strike me as a transcendent

It always comes up at some point in discussions about education. Zuckerberg is a particularly poor example because he really doesn't strike me as a transcendent genius like Gates or Wozniak or Jobs, just a guy who built the right thing at the right time. I think for the vast majority of people, self-education is really, really hard. Even now in 2014, the material available online is very limited in scope and depth. Maybe some people could grab a college curriculum, get the lecture notes, buy all the books, and then sit down and truly learn all that material by themselves. I certainly couldn't.