/lit/ - Literature

>>20141512
Berry nice girl collecting is nicer than wojack collecting

>>20141512
>Autodidactism
like being a guy who repairs cars or something?

>>20141512
I agree. Especially when it comes to philosophy and metaphysics, etc. subjects which pertain moreso to the less orders

Then why the fuck are you here you validation whore go and study

>>20141648
Sometimes the posters on this board remind me of when Instagram girls post books they aren't going to read.

>>20141615
higher* orders, unrelated to modern experimentalism

>>20141512
My point is here
>>20141660
>>20141615
That STEM autodidactism is autistics and retarded, all "self-sufficient" subjects are better "self-learnt" reducing the number of external dependencies is a noble thing.

>>20141512
>>20141670
Did you learn English autodidactically, ESL? I can barely understand you, lmao.
> That STEM autodidactism is autistics and retarded
What do you mean? Mathematics as a subject of study is readily given to autodidacticism. It might just be the perfect subject for it next to philosophy.

>>20141512

Without academia, your time will be consumed with doing petty shit for money. At least a professor can devote his actual work towards a subject that interests him. Even if he has to make concessions

>>20141512
>That one rejected gift: "the ne'er contented mind, that ever broods the New," the youngest Norn holds out to all of us when we are born, and through it alone might we each, one day, become a "Genius;" but now, in our craze for education, 'tis Chance alone that brings this gift within our grasp,—the accident of not becoming educated (erzogen). Secure against the refusal of a father who died beside my cradle, perchance the Norn, so often chased away, stole gently to it, and there bestowed on me her gift; which never left poor untrained me, and made Life and Art and mine own self my only, quite anarchic, educators.—

>>20143318
Exactly, as an autodidact I published 3 papers in top journals in my field, while the average 3-4th year PhD has barely one, but I'm not getting paid for this shit unless I'm ghostwriting someone else's paper

>>20141512
>nobler that academia
That's not saying much.
>"Power and Authority in [X]"
There, 90% of humanities articles.

>>20141596
No, someone who teaches their car things.

>>20143729
I usually just break it...

i did a lot of autodidacting and super got into it but i have a lot of stuff i dont understand like energy and atoms and photons and sciencey things also math