Yes, why indeed be in a classroom with other people--as a teacher or student--if you think it's all about what you "get to say" and you don't want to learn from and alongside others?

Reminds me of my creative writing teacher's complaint, 20 years ago, about students who want to write but they haven't yet read anything and have no interest in reading. The question wasn't so much "How can you write if nothing has happened in your life yet?" (which is a hard demand to make of 20-year-olds) but more: "How can you produce anything good if you don't absorb what others are producing?" Culturally, we tend to talk about genius as if it happens to certain individuals in a vacuum and the rest of us just appreciate them and make them famous, but artistry and innovation is unlikely to happen that way, in isolation, without attention to one's "audience," which is really a multi-way dialogue and a cultural context.