• 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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    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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    (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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    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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  • Kiki Bokassa (born 1975, Paris, France) is an autodidact conceptual artist, who works in the expressionist, figurative art genre. She has paintings in...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    American semiconductor engineer autodidact...
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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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    examinations in 1893, when his formal education ended. However, he remained an autodidact and voraciously read theological treatises, Greek mythology, Johann Wolfgang...
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    experimental "formalism", and disliked avant-garde in the visual arts. An autodidact despite his limited formal education, Stalin was a voracious reader who...
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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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    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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    Autodidact computer programmer Jeri Ellsworth at a 2009 Bay Area "Maker Faire" conference...
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    professional work. [...] German mainstream scholarship called him an 'autodidact, with a poor teacher' and 'gypsy-intellectual.'" Staudenmaier, Peter (2014)...
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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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  • United States, prominent examples of African-American genius such the autodidact and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the pioneering sociologist W. E....
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    increasingly cramped household. Her oddball teenage son Willing, an economics autodidact, looks as if he can save the once august family from the streets. The...
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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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    East Syria. He was a central figure in the American green movement. An autodidact who never attended college, he is considered one of the last public intellectuals...
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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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    "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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  • joined a conservatory, but soon left to study music production as an autodidact. He rose in popularity after producing Blanco's debut studio album, Blu...
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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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    especially important, as he served as a transitional figure between the autodidactism exemplified by Glinka and The Five, and professionally trained composers...
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    the solenoid (a term coined by him) and the electrical telegraph. As an autodidact, Ampère was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and professor at...
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