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autodidact

NOUN
  1. a person who has taught himself

How To Use autodidact In A Sentence

  • Thankfully these days there is the Internet, where autodidacts like me can find these things out for ourselves.
  • Those of us who are autodidactic don't learn from one source.
  • 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
  • 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.
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