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school without the middleman, and no one to blame but you.
means learning a subject through your own effort and structure, without a teacher guiding each step.
from the term rose alongside correspondence courses in the 1800s, when people learned trades and languages entirely by mail-order lesson packets.
biggest enemynot ignorance, but plausible-feeling procrastination
real bottleneckfeedback, not information, which is now free
autodidacts clubmost inventors before 1900 had no formal training
for instance
srinivasa ramanujan — taught himself advanced number theory from one library book, 1900s madras
michael faraday — bookbinder's apprentice who self-taught physics into the electric motor, 1820s
khan academy learners — millions rebuilding math from scratch, no classroom required
upsc aspirants — lakhs in india prepping civil service exams solo for years