I believe that both approaches (self-teaching and certified teaching) can leave deficiencies in the learner. They can complement each other. There are famous cases of personalities who have left university and founded successful software companies by learning on their own, but statistics are a better reflection of reality.

By the way, check your HTML code, as the rendering in #Ecency is terrible. I was going to ask you if that was intentional and you are exposing a #bug of that frontend :)