[hiAndrewQuinn]

I don't think I'm undervaluing it, I think it's just low expected value in the first place. Just because you had 36-40 hours of a good experience over a 3 or 4 year degree doesn't actually mean the median or even the 90th percentile classroom experience is better than self-education.

[keiferski]

…I had more than one good class in my four years of college. It was an example.

Self-education is great but is also leads to a kind of idiosyncratic blindness, because no one really forces themselves to study anything that they aren’t already interested in.