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hiss  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: To what extent can you actually teach yourself a subject?

    While Internet forums often provide a means of communication with experts in a field, this is not always the case

Educators need to be paid for there to be some incentive for them to make themselves available to learners. What you're getting at here is interaction. Browsing stackexchange isn't going to help me to give me as much of an insight on a very difficult problem as having my question, with all its peculiarities, answered directly. And it's only the very difficult problems that help my knowledge and experience to grow.