DIY Education Used To Be The Norm In The 19th Century
From The NY Times:
Actually correspondence schools such as International Correspondence Schools have been doing DIY education since the late 19th Century. Frankly, from what I’ve seen of their textbooks, they Did a very good job of getting the core of what people needed to know without the romantic extras. We’ve forgotten that skills are what matter in our credential driven society. Here’s a list of some of the stuff that was available.
As Danny Choo says, you can do far worse than google sensei and youtube sensei.
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