Learning for me has little to do with school as many people would immediately associate it with, learning is linked with discovering,understanding and growth. If you find something out for yourself then more value is put on that information and you have created an individual process. If someone tells you how to do something then all you are doing is regurgitating their process that puts so much less weight behind this information and creates, in my mind, a redundancy to it. I believe in being self taught in many things, its sort of nature versus nurture (nurture being the proactive attempts to teach ones self and nature being externally taught).
On the technical side of camera work and editing processes I almost totally taught myself and in some cases I have taken parts for teaching from others but in doing that i have taken from many areas to create my own understanding (that's called inspiration might write about that one). The next step (and is something I have talked about in 3- Intimacy and slightly in 4- Ego) is finding ones own voice through art and creation, this I think can only come from the self. I would not want to say something with my art that I myself had not understood was something I wanted to say, this goes back to the regurgitation of others techniques but this time is regurgitation of other people's voices through art.
I am traveling down to cornwall and quite possibly wont have internet, this could be the end, oh dear...