All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.