Jon Wilde: “Teachers are basically irrelevant, kids are innate self learners”.

Sam Bagwhat: “You say that because you hang around a ton of self-learners.  It ain’t that easy“.

Me: I think there’s a chicken-vs-egg thing underneath the surface here.  If libertarian circles are overwhelmingly made up of self-learners, at least enough so that it couldn’t be coincidence, then which was the beginning trait?  Were we just naturally learning outside of traditional authority because we already rejected it in principle, or is it a matter of self-learners realizing along the way “well if I don’t need coercive authority over me for this, there’s really no reason to accept it for anything”?