moish, I take it from your comment that you were suggesting I might be one of your “teachers who doesn’t know he is teaching you”? That’s not really worth that much. But hey, plenty of self-taught people are successful, I just find that it is very rare for a student to train himself without directed guidance. Perhaps a mentor, if not a tutor. But yeah, you could probably teach yourself more than the average American knows without any guidance. Which of course exempts you completely from math and Gemara 🙂
