How To Use autodidact In A Sentence
- Like most autodidacts and truth be told, many PhDs, my own education is uneven, only its spottiness is driven by curiosity and desire instead of the deficiencies of a preset curriculum. Hunger to Learn
- He was an autodidact who taught himself these languages while working as an Assistant Keeper in the British Museum, after completing a Classics degree at Cambridge.
- While my understanding of dance technique falls into the "autodidactic" category (IANAD), it's more difficult to perform multiple pirouettes with the legs parallel--as the gymnasts (and jazz dancers) do them--than with the raised leg turned out. Sports
- She enjoys passing on her knowledge - much of it autodidactic - to her pupils, but insists the most enjoyable aspect of her classes is the wisdom that she soaks up from the students themselves. Gabriela Epstein: Color, Form and Energy
- He said he had come to know a ‘number of strong personalities there, combative workers, autodidacts, sometimes intellectuals’.
- A self-confessed autodidact - he rejected any formal musical training preferring instead to develop his own touch - he proves to be an incredibly talented melodist and arranger.
- ‘The autodidactic element was one of the identifying characteristics of the New Swiss film, both for filmmakers and technicians’.
- In her lifetime she noted that her work highlighted the unfortunate divide between autodidactic and certified professional therapy.
- She has the vigorous curiosity of the nineteenth-century autodidact, the brash stamina of the colonial settler, and the unselfconscious righteousness of the imperial missionary.
- The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an explosion of traveling lecturers in the United States thanks to the lyceum movement, an autodidactic effort that catered to the hunger for knowledge of a self-educating populace. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY