< Myths of the Self-Taught Designer
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The problem with a lot of design schools at least here in the US is they are housed at ART schools and ask for an ART portfolio for entrance and not a design portfolio. A good painter gets into school majors in designs and sucks. Some of the worst design I have ever seen has been by "artist" who think their artistic skills automatically translate into design.
As far as the current debate goes I wish school were allowed to be honest. Out of my graduating class half of them had portfolios that made them unemployable and the school just let them continue and rack up loans knowing they no one would ever hire them.
I think talented people can always benefit from a formal structured setting. So its not really self taught versus schooled, its really talent versus no talent. NO talent fails in school and in the real world.