*People underestimate learning or don't understand how awesome
  it really is - it has nothing to do with school* It's about
  *compressing Time Itself* I think of it this way:

  You got a guy that spent 10,000 hours of their life learning
  something. (12 hrs a day, for about 2 years). All that Time. In
  that time, he figured out some Rules that ALWAYS work.

  He teaches you a rule. That rule might have taken him 1000 hours
  of EXPERIENCE but you learn it in just 20 minutes. You learn the
  rule, run it through your head a whole bunch of times, write it
  down, memorize it, completely understand it.

  1000 hr * 60 = 60000 minutes.

  20 minutes / 60000 minutes = 0.03%

  It took you 0.03% of the time to learn something from an
  MASTER..

  (it takes about 10,000 hours of doing something to become an
  total Master at something - they've proven that)

  Then you can go learn something else. That's why each generation
  gets Exponentially smarter and better - they don't have to do
  ALL the hard work on stuff other people already did.

  Then *you* can do the hard work on stuff that *NOBODY EVER DID*
  before, which Changes the knowledge of the world. Yeah, *I think
  big.* Really Big.#

  So it's not about finding teachers: Find the Experts and learn
  from them. Teachers do the best they can, but *they* are
  learning from Masters (hopefully a Master wrote the Teacher's
  text book) and then, knowing a tiny bit more than you, teaching
  it to you.

  Find the Masters when you can. Learn from them.