Has anyone self taught themselves a subject

Zinhead
Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:07:07 +0000

It is easier and cheaper to be self taught nowadays. Many schools post lecture series on Youtube or other sites. I am big history buff, and enjoyed going through Yale’s lectures, and paring them with history books or historic novels from the time period discussed.

https://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses/playlists

MIT also posts quite a bit of course content.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT

These can be supplemented by free classes on Coursera or paid courses the The Teaching Company:

www.thegreatcourses.com.

The Great Courses are of a high quality, and you can pick up used copies on Ebay pretty inexpensively. They are great for cross-country drives. On a two week vacation on the west coast, we listened to the complete Foundations of Western Civilization lecture series, and the kids found they were much more prepared for Middle and High School history classes than their peers.