Why do some people seem to never become autodidactic?
I personally love learning, and I'm very autodidactic. When I want to learn something, I source material, I qualify it, and I set myself a learning path towards a very specific goal of skills or acquired knowledge. If my goals contain skills, then I plan for small exercises and hands-on training in between theoretic materials. My learning sources are primarily written text, and recorded video or audio. I never attended courses or classroom education after I left my formal public education.
Regularly, and more frequently in the past years, I come across more and more people who possess little to no autodidactic (or self-learning) skills. When they are presented with a challenge that requires learning something, they seem to be totally lost. The only thing they seem to be able to do is course-based classroom learning. When they do classroom learning, they absolutely master it with very strong results. But when they're required to apply the learned knowledge in reality, they fail if it goes beyond the strict boundary of what was taught in the classroom.
Why is it that some people seem to be totally unable to become autodidactic, and often can only very narrowly acquire knowledge without the skill of universally applying it?