13/50 on the test for me. I was just curious.

I believe it was Einstein that said, "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination."

I think I have an interesting take on traditional education vs. self-educated. I'm a high-school dropout, but I (now) have extensive amounts of credit hours in college. I'm performing at a high level. This is not really because I'm the smartest guy in the room, but I do work incredibly hard. Being an autodidact is important in academia. There's no way to learn it all. I have learned a lot in both paradigms.

In most fields, the rate of change is very slow, and the path to success is varied. These fields are awful for school. You literally can't write a book fast enough that would be adequate for teaching. A lot depends on the people that you're learning from. I think essentially it boils down to exposure to great people, and knowing enough to know what you don't know. There's a whole lot of unnecessary knowledge/classes to learn, but you do get a foundation to grow from that is much slower to find on your own. Plus, sometimes the stuff that sucks really bad is important to learn. (I hate admitting that.)