How To Use Autodidact In A Sentence
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Thankfully these days there is the Internet, where autodidacts like me can find these things out for ourselves.
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Those of us who are autodidactic don't learn from one source.
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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
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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
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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
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He said he had come to know a ‘number of strong personalities there, combative workers, autodidacts, sometimes intellectuals’.
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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.
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‘The autodidactic element was one of the identifying characteristics of the New Swiss film, both for filmmakers and technicians’.
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In her lifetime she noted that her work highlighted the unfortunate divide between autodidactic and certified professional therapy.
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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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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
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He is handed down to us as a man of ideas: both autodidact and didact.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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
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Yes, M-mv's resident and original reader, thinker, and autodidact is a bit cranky today, but she'll beat this funk before too long.
04.04
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For a man of his scholarly stature and erudition, it is astonishing to note that he was an autodidact in theology and had never earned a theological degree in the strict sense.
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He rages with all the garrulous articulacy of the legal autodidact, narrowly educated after years of court cases, appeals and disappointments.
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The pathos of the Satrean autodidact resides in the nature of his ‘appeal’, the gaze for which he stages his behaviour, the symbolic Big Other to which he submits his uncomplaining travail.
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Sincere, intelligent and tossing out great gobbets of autodidact philosophy, he pressed on with his analysis of the ‘discourse problem’.
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Like other autodidacts of his time, he aspired to universal knowledge.
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He started his working life as a bookbinder, though he longed to be part of the world of science, which he learned about with all the vigour of an autodidact.
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It was an unacademic purveyor of learning, with its own hierarchy of specialists, autodidacts to a man.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Though neither attended university, Jonson was a famous autodidact whose classical learning (including his knowledge of Greek) easily outstripped Shakespeare's.
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An autodidact who, his daughter imagined, may have spoken Hebrew with a drawl, Joseph Calisher was a manufacturer of perfumes, soaps, and talcs.
Hortense Calisher.
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I have strong autodidactic tendencies that some find amusing; as they do the fact I had to look up "autodidactic" in the dictionary.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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They're well-informed autodidacts who feel marginalised by the academy.
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i am autodidactic which is the key to being able to do all the things i do, and know and all that, and why others dont believe it.
Prager on the 2010 election
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Imagine, if you will, the Bubba Keg (a gift from Aunt M-mv) filled to capacity (52 ounces) with Trader Joe's French roast, brewed dark and strong, the way a certain autodidact favors it.
Archive 2004-12-01
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Anyway, I enjoy reading your site, and one of these days I'm even going to look up "autodidact" in the dictionary.
"Shockingly provincial"
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These sources give us valuable insights into her autodidacticism in all its profusion and chaos, as well as her modernity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It was to a large extent a self-education with the characteristic vices and virtues; when he came to power in 1949 he was still the brilliant autodidact, mixing shrewd unorthodox insights with astonishing ignorance.
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Helene got him a topflight classical guitar teacher, who found the boy stubbornly autodidactic.
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I highly recommend this epoch-making CD-ROM to teachers, students, and even autodidacts.
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An autodidact and a polymath, he studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.
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Her instruments inspired the formation of the local senior citizens' gourd band, whose music testifies to the unbounded nature of autodidactic innovation.
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His music exhibits both the glories and pitfalls of the autodidact.
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An autodidact and a polymath, Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects.
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We are rather hoping that "Mental multivitamin" is that space-time for our fellow readers, thinkers, and autodidacts.
Are we alone in the universe?
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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.
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Both were autodidacts, who went, perfunctorily, to school and college while pursuing their education by their own means and under their own instruction.
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She's a quintessential bookworm, a ferocious autodidact - someone who, whatever her missteps and transgressions, commands our respect and attention.
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Yet many scholars established in other fields have become ecological autodidacts and have begun to develop research and teaching in environmental subjects.
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One of the true autodidacts of his generation, Kiyooka's formal education ended in grade nine, 1942, when he and his family, identified by federal policy as ‘of the Japanese race’ were forced out of Calgary.
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His teacher was the history he lived through and participated in, his friends the generation of revolutionaries surrounding him - erudite autodidacts of the times.
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That star student Hermione Granger seems perfectly self-sufficient with her own autodidactic learning and can conjure enough spells to consistently rescue her two hapless male counterparts.
Ruth Starkman: Harry Potter: College Drop Out?
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He started his artistic career as an autodidact.
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In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country -- the Halls of Congress -- a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage.
Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
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He had ended his formal education at the age of 13, lost his given first name during a tour of the South Pacific, and turned himself into a formidable autodidact in the dressing rooms of provincial theatres.
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Both exemplify the autodidactic combination of total conviction, terrifying erudition and occasional utter idiocy that so fascinates me, despite being decidedly over-educated.
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In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage.
Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
