Teach Yourself

Start with children's books. My mom has always done this, and she taught it to me. She would check out a stack of kids' books on a topic and read through them for a complete overview: the basic terms, concepts, events, and people, etc. It is a way to dive into a new subject in a completely non-intimidating way, and you really pick up a lot of knowledge.

Learn to make connections. Your brain does this naturally, but it makes better connections as your knowledge grows and you have more practice. I recommend learning to MindMap/IdeaMap. That way you can graphically record the topics and ideas you're learning that go together, having your ideas handy to review later. Also, making these maps will lead you to make connections you didn't think of at first, which is one of my favorite things about this. I've had so many "aha! moments" doing this.

Write it Out. (Or talk it out, if you're an extravert with a patient audience!) Although I disliked it for the first few weeks of ninth grade, I got used to it pretty quickly: after my daily Great Books reading session (about 45 minutes of reading each assigned title) I wrote a 10-minute narration of what I had read that day, and all my thoughts about it. It really helped me grow as a reader and as a thinker.

I would add;
- learn to draw in 3 -d to express concepts
- learn to debate and structure your thoughts
- learn to listen

I believe that learning something can be self-taught.

A good way and an easy way to learn is to just read the posts here on the forum.

Some examples:

https://permies.com/t/64698/Images-Keyline-Keypoint-Berms-Terraces

https://permies.com/t/64628/Images-Edge-Effect-share-teaching

https://permies.com/t/30788/Teaching-Children-Permaculture

This is an interesting article about someone who used books to get an education because she did not have the opportunity to go to college.

This thread:  https://permies.com/t/193702/College

Through it all, the reading list was a constant in her life, traveling with her even on vacations so she could refer to it while prowling flea markets and used bookstores for the next book on the list.

A person who wants to teach themselves would need to have clear goals about what they want to accomplish.

I believe in learning by repetition.  When I was in school I like to type out what I was trying to learn

Once a person learns something it is good to share that knowledge with others.