• Autodidacticism (redirect from Autodidact)
    Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance...
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  • The Autodidact is a fictional character from Jean-Paul Sartre's 1938 novel Nausea. The Autodidact, who lives in Bouville near the protagonist Antoine...
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  • This is a list of notable autodidacts. The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. Some notables listed did receive formal...
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    (2000) Only After Dark with Nick Rhodes (2006) Retreat into Art (2001) Autodidact (1997) The Japan EP (2000) Terroristen: Live at the Roxy (2001) "I Do...
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  • parties)". This ideal is also reflected in Dumain's unusual website, The Autodidact Project, which reprints bibliographies, research guides and articles by...
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    Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and autodidact who has been reported to score very highly on IQ tests. Langan's IQ was...
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    – 12 December 1991), better known as Henk Ngantung was an Indonesian autodidact painter and politician of Minahasan descent. He was appointed Deputy Governor...
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  • 4:08 4. "Aeronaut" 3:40 5. "The Long Goodbye" 2:43 6. "Half-Life of an Autodidact" 3:27 7. "Amarinthe" 3:54 8. "Antietam" 3:16 9. "Mandarynne" 3:56 10....
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    American semiconductor engineer autodidact...
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    Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao, born 13 September 1941) is a Japanese autodidact architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized...
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    love interest Chris Cooper's "lank-haired, toothless charisma" as the autodidact arrested for poaching rare orchids. Streep appeared alongside Nicole Kidman...
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    reigns of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. An autodidact, he claimed to read as many as 500 pages a day, with Montefiore regarding...
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  • Kendall Hailey is an American writer and autodidact. She graduated from high school a year early, at age 16, to pursue unschooling and wrote about her...
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    recording is offered by colleges and universities. Some audio engineers are autodidacts with no formal training, but who have attained professional skills in...
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    aimless learning, while the absence of external feedback could result in autodidacts developing misconceptions and inaccurately assessing their learning progress...
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    Madurai Mani Iyer (Tamil: மதுரை மணி ஐயர்; 25 October 1912 – 8 June 1968) was an Indian Carnatic music singer, who was famous for his unique style. He was...
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    University and several other universities. Dennett described himself as "an autodidact—or, more properly, the beneficiary of hundreds of hours of informal tutorials...
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  • Thomas Dixon (1831–1880) was a working class autodidact and literary correspondent of Sunderland in the north-east of England. A cork-cutter by trade,...
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  • Etymology (root origin) English examples da-, dida- (ΔΑ) learn Greek δάω autodidact, Didache, didact, didactic, didacticism dacry- tear Greek δάκρυον, δακρύειν...
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    20th-century mathematics was Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (1887–1920), an Indian autodidact who conjectured or proved over 3000 theorems[citation needed], including...
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  • painting. JPL · 8237 8238 Courbet 4232 T-1 Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), an autodidact who studied nature and the great paintings in the Louvre. MPC · 8238 8239...
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  • Élisabeth Daynès Born 1960 Béziers, France Education autodidact Known for Sculpture, Plastic arts Awards John J. Lazendorf Paleoart prize...
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  • United States, prominent examples of African-American genius such the autodidact and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the pioneering sociologist W. E....
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    "War of Southron Independence" in this timeline). The protagonist, the autodidact Hodgins Backmaker, travels back to the aforementioned battle and inadvertently...
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  • balairung ('hall'), kedai ('shop'), pandai ('clever') /au̯/: autodidak ('autodidact'), Taufik (Indonesian given name), kerbau ('buffalo'), limau ('lemon')...
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  • 13478 Fraunhofer 1976 DB1 Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826), a German autodidact, glassmaker, optician and scientist, had an uncommon talent. He improved...
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    F. Max Muller. Kessinger Publishing, 2003. p. 123 "Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Spinoza, the First Secular Jew?" by Yirmiyahu Yovel". Kirsch...
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    free-trade and anti-statist political views. Otherwise, Spencer was an autodidact who acquired most of his knowledge from narrowly focused readings and...
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    Pietà Aiace e Cassandra Capnist, Misha (November 20, 2020). "Jago, The Autodidact". Retrieved April 20, 2023. Potenziani, Elisa. "JAGO - Sculpture beyond...
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  • [ljǒʊ îtɕʰjɛ́n], born 1963) is a Chinese billionaire investor and art collector. An autodidact who formerly worked as a taxi driver, he has built his fortune since the...
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