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Quote by: gallo That's just not true. He did quit school and then was unable to pass the entrance test to get into the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). Thus, he went back to school and finished his secondary education before being admitted to the ETH. That isn't quite the same as educating himself.

Sorry, let me re-word that. He did not literally educate himself, but restarted education at the age of 15 after quitting school.

Right. He educated himself by attending classes at the ETH and the University of Zurich. That's just wonderful if it were true. Unfortunately, I suspect that learning something like differential calculus or linear algebra might be a bit of a problem.

Online calculus courses: Applications of Integration and Calculus of Transcendental Functions


I am saying now with the internet it is possible to self-teach.

Besides, Einstein would not have been appointed to positions at the University of Zurich, The University of Prague, the ETH, and the University of Berlin. Of course, while a professor at the ETH Zurich, Einstein was taught Riemannian geometry by another professor. Einstein found it useful in his general theory of relativity.

You're really missing the point here.

By the way, one of the 5 papers that Einstein published in the annus mirabilis (1905) was his dissertation for his PhD. Another was the paper for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, and yet another was the special theory of relativity. The last paper of 1905 was essentially a footnote to special relativity. It was about the equivalence of matter/energy.

Einstein was 26 by that time, I am talking about people self-teach general college/university lessons online. You like to take ideas that people have and stretch them to an extreme to make them look bad.

Anyway, no matter how much time you spent on the internet or how much you think you know, a major engineering firm won't even look at your application if you don't have a real degree. No matter how much medicine you read about, you can't call yourself doctor and treat patients. You can't even call yourself a nurse and get a job without a diploma. You can probably think of many more examples.

YES, I am aware that online information will not give you a PhD in anything. I am saying that the internet has enough information for an average individual to access the same information the people in college and university do from the comfort of their own home!


Nowhere in the OP did I state people will be able to use online training as an asset for their resume; I actually stated there are no diplomas online. You really, really, missed the point I am making here.