Autodidact
noun
A person who learns or teaches themselves without a teacher or formal education.
He was an autodidact in the field of computer programming and made a successful career for himself.
Often appears as...
- becoming an autodidact
- autodidact in a field
noun
A person who learns or teaches themselves without a teacher or formal education.
He was an autodidact in the field of computer programming and made a successful career for himself.
Often appears as...
- becoming an autodidact
- autodidact in a field
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Motivation
An autodidact must be highly motivated to learn on their own without guidance.
Despite having no formal training, the autodidact mastered five languages through self-study.
Pro Tip 2/3Resourcefulness
Autodidacts utilize various resources like books, internet, and practical experiments to learn.
The inventor was an autodidact who used online resources to build her first prototype.
Pro Tip 3/3Independent Learning
Using 'autodidact' highlights the independent aspect of someone's learning process.
She's an autodidact who prefers digging through archives to understand history, rather than attending lectures.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Motivation
An autodidact must be highly motivated to learn on their own without guidance.
Despite having no formal training, the autodidact mastered five languages through self-study.
Pro Tip 2/3Resourcefulness
Autodidacts utilize various resources like books, internet, and practical experiments to learn.
The inventor was an autodidact who used online resources to build her first prototype.
Pro Tip 3/3Independent Learning
Using 'autodidact' highlights the independent aspect of someone's learning process.
She's an autodidact who prefers digging through archives to understand history, rather than attending lectures.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Motivation
An autodidact must be highly motivated to learn on their own without guidance.
Despite having no formal training, the autodidact mastered five languages through self-study.
Pro Tip 2/3Resourcefulness
Autodidacts utilize various resources like books, internet, and practical experiments to learn.
The inventor was an autodidact who used online resources to build her first prototype.
Pro Tip 3/3Independent Learning
Using 'autodidact' highlights the independent aspect of someone's learning process.
She's an autodidact who prefers digging through archives to understand history, rather than attending lectures.
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Quote examples
Kate Atkinson
English Author
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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Joe Taslim
Indonesian Actor
I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams
American Critic
A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.
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Anthony Doerr
American Writer
I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.
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Viv Albertine
British Musician
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.
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Doris Lessing
English Writer
I am your original autodidact.
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Kate Atkinson
English Author
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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Joe Taslim
Indonesian Actor
I don't take acting classes - I'm quite an autodidact. I prefer to learn from other actors by watching various movies. Evaluate my acting, spot the flaws and fix them.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams
American Critic
A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.
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Anthony Doerr
American Writer
I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science.
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Viv Albertine
British Musician
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.
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Doris Lessing
English Writer
I am your original autodidact.
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