Comment by nipah

I don't think two wrongs make a right, tho. Looking down at formal education is not the same as embracing anti-intellectualism. And while I admit the software industry is absolutely full of bullshit anti-intellectualism, I also don't believe formal education is or should be the standard for the education, formalism is not automatically better than alternative means of learning.

The problem of anti-intellectualism in SE is just the consequence of the field being more "democratized". Or, to put in other words, the mass is stupid and the mass-man is stupidier and primitive.