IтАЩve always interpreted WildeтАЩs aphorism on other levels. Wilde didnтАЩt say that nothing worth knowing can be тАШlearnedтАЩ, he said тАШtaughtтАЩ. His message was that all real learning is self learning.
By coincidence, IтАЩve long owned a treasured copy of тАЬThe Ashley Book of KnotsтАЭ. I briefly learned hundreds of them. But the ones I remember are the ones learned from necessity, and use often. ThatтАЩs the advantage of the autodidact.
Knot-tying is worthwhile knowledge that can be taught.
Teaching and training are different things, I suspect Eric Hoffer would agree.
So nice to hear someone else remembers Eric Hoffer.
Dude was an intellectual OG with an outdoor minerтАЩs heart. He wrote the intellectual guide to Al Qaida 60 years before 8/11.
IтАЩve always interpreted WildeтАЩs aphorism on other levels. Wilde didnтАЩt say that nothing worth knowing can be тАШlearnedтАЩ, he said тАШtaughtтАЩ. His message was that all real learning is self learning.
By coincidence, IтАЩve long owned a treasured copy of тАЬThe Ashley Book of KnotsтАЭ. I briefly learned hundreds of them. But the ones I remember are the ones learned from necessity, and use often. ThatтАЩs the advantage of the autodidact.