I think some of the best schoolteachers are the ones who are autodidacts, and not for the obvious reasons.
Definitionally, the "being an autodidact" plus "have educator credentials" means they've done the dual paths of:
- learning thing with structure and guidance
- yolo self directed learning where you constantly feel like you know nothing because you're always on the leading edge of your knowledge
which in retrospect means they've got some really useful skills:
- a wide swathe of notetaking techniques
- and how to format things such that people write down the right things
- forming lesson plans but iterating as you go
- experience and skills for building a branch lesson plan on the fly when they realize there's a lack of understanding, and the scope of the paths
- what constantly trips themselves up, and how to potentially avoid it
- they can come in hungover and still teach you effective linear algebra because they at this point have ~10 years of experience reading the entire textbook during open book final exams because they thought finals were two weeks later