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  The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: The Autodidact: Someone who thinks for themselves? Or someone who can be rather ...
An autodidact is a person who has largely educated himself or herself and whose views of the world are largely self-inspired.
In our time, autodidacts have been less important and less visible than previously, a result of the movement of what is regarded as true knowledge and belief to the exclusive, or almost exclusive, province of the university and of research and learning conducted there.
Autodidactism also had its dark side, since an intellectual universe created from one's own variegated readings and preferred opinion often lacked a moral component, and often went with ethical solipsism.
www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000799.php   (1677 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Autodidact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
An autodidact is a mostly self-taught person (also known as an automath), or someone who has an enthusiasm for self-education, and usually has a high degree of self-motivation.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell is one of the most famous autodidacts, and is seen by some as a poster-boy for the methodology.
AUTODIDACT biedt het grote voordeel dat de cursist, afhankelijk van zijn vaardigheden en interessen, AutoCAD in zijn eigen tijd en tempo onder de knie kan krijgen.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Autodidact   (959 words)

  
 Autodidact by Robert Genn - The Painter's Keys Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The ten-dollar word is "autodidact." It's a person who directs and controls her own course of study, often with specific goals in mind.
The essential autodidact is hands-on, pursuing avenues of interest and gain in his or her own sweet time.
Esoterica: The autodidact is often suspicious of outside authority.
www.painterskeys.com /letters.asp?let=010907   (456 words)

  
 Autodidacticism - The Chapterhouse Codex
An autodidact is a mostly self-taught person (also known as an automath), or someone who has an enthusiasm for self-education, and usually has a high degree of self-motivation.
For example, physicist and judo expert Moshe Feldenkrais developed an autodidactic method of self-improvement based on his own experience with self-directed learning in physiology and neurology prompted by a crippling knee injury.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell is one of the most famous autodidacts, and is seen by some as a poster-boy for the methodology.
www.icebreaker.net /wiki/index.php/Autodidacticism   (914 words)

  
 Public Eyesore Records - Catalog - pit38
What makes this album special is that the outcome always remains melodic, even in the most fuzzy and distorted moments, and that Autodidact carries a strong psychedelic vibe alongside the obvious noise/space influences.
This is especially evident in the mind-cleansing 18-minute opener, which blends a squadron of efx with strummed acoustic guitar and loops into an unstoppable twister of totally addictive cosmic repetition.
Autodidact play a very majestic darkwave / new age / noise ambience that should inspire reverence and loyalty from everyone who ever felt a doleful day.
www.publiceyesore.com /catalog.php?pg=2&pit=38   (1801 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Autodidact
autodidact The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English...
A LIFE IN FULL: Driffield or, The Man Who Thought He Looked Like Raymond Carver; No one knew his first name, or even if he had one.
He was a legendary figure in the book-dealing world: a relentless haggler, a teetotal vegetarian, an autodidact, a skinhead peripatetic whose outfits looked like a dare.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Autodidact   (432 words)

  
 Pedagogical impact :: Weblog :: Being an Autodidact
Sometimes referred to as autodidactism, informal learning is the most common type of learning, in fact it is so common that many participants do not even recognize that they are learning when they investigate or research a topic of interest.
I remember being startled to discover that "autodidact" was sometimes used as a term of derision.
To me, someone who actively learns, not so much on their own as by finding others willing to share their knowledge in an area the "autodidact" is curious about and/or needs to know more about, someone who uses and follows their own curiosity, - this is someone whom I see as admirable.
elgg.net /pedagogy/weblog/7215.html   (607 words)

  
 Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/autodidact
He is our ultimate autodidact, a man who made himself from nothing into a lawyer, a legislator -- a president.
Buck's prose is a lot better than you'd expect from a high-school dropout, but he turns out to be a reader and autodidact.
Autodidact is from Greek autodidaktos, "self-taught," from auto-, "self" + didaktos, "taught," from didaskein, "to teach."
dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2002/05/28.html   (80 words)

  
 Autodidact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 autodidact (oto di'dakt) n.
au·to·di·dact / ˌô t ōˈdīˌdækt / • n.
NEWSPAPERS The Independent (London, England) 05/13/2005 Goldberg, David J. Byline: David J. Goldberg Adrianne Uziell-Hamilton a circuit judge until her retirement three years ago was a woman of great warmth, sharp intelligence, wide- ranging interests, deep friendships, abiding loyalties and a fiery temper that mellowed with age.
www.encyclopedie.ws /Autodidact   (294 words)

  
 Vocabulary Word of the Day: Autodidact (auto-die-dakt) - Homeschool - Families.com
I was explaining how when I am curious about a subject, I tend to go into autopilot and I bury myself in the subject matter for anywhere from 24 hours to a month.
While many educators, teachers and parents would protest a child directing their own education, you have to admit that having an autodidact, as a child would make your life a lot easier.
Some ways you could direct an autodidacts is to write an outline of things you want the child to learn for the year, and have them to attack each subject as they are led.
homeschooling.families.com /blog/vocabulary-word-of-the-day-autodidact-auto-die-dakt   (491 words)

  
 autodidact | | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
An autodidact, also known as an automath, is a mostly self-taught person — typically someone who has an enthusiasm for self-education and a high degree of self-motivation.
Other autodidacts have excelled within, and brought innovative perspectives to, their more mainstream disciplines.
Een autodidact is iemand die zijn kennis door zelfstudie heeft verkregen.De term wordt met name gebruikt bij kennisniveaus waarbij een gedegen opleiding wordt verwacht, zoals bij universitaire of andere hogere studies, en vooral artistieke beroepen, bijvoorbeeld kunstschilders of musici.
www.babylon.com /definition/autodidact/All   (371 words)

  
 Clines, Confessions of an Autodidact
Carol Newsom commented that the discipline of literary criticism in Hebrew Bible studies did not yet appear to be a 'mature' one, in that so many of its leading practitioners were 'autodidacts', not trained in schools of literary studies or comparative literature.
It surely cannot be worse than being compelled by the academic system, as is the case in some European countries, of adopting and defending the positions of one's teachers, more or less for the whole of one's life.
I just want to emphasize that it has to be healthy for the discipline as a whole if new ideas and approaches are being brought into the discipline by scholars who have branched out beyond the boundaries of their own training and formed unstructured and untutored relationships with other disciplines.
www.shef.ac.uk /bibs/DJACcurrres/Confessions.html   (1332 words)

  
 The Autodidact's Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Autodidact's Journal is a research journal devoted to the one group who has none: namely, researchers with no (conventional) field of specialization or institutional loyalties.
It is intended to be a journal of record for people who are curious and are doing something about it, or would like to.
The Autodidact's Journal is published on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes.
www.monad.com /sdg/Journal   (393 words)

  
 Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project: Researching the Topic (1)
While attending to the whole range of meanings, our emphasis here is on autodidaxy/autodidacticism as a philosophical and sociological concept, to locate the autodidact in the universe of knowledge.
Terminology: one is not likely to find all material of interest under one term.
We use "autodidact" as a shorthand concept covering everything from the mechanics of self-education to the more cultural-philosophical-psychological notion of bildung (self-cultivation).
www.home.thirdage.com /Education/ralphdavid/rsearch1.html   (395 words)

  
 Autodidact - AOL Music
An autodidact, also known as an automath, is a mostly self-taught person...
A person may become an autodidact at nearly any point in his or her life.
Download, listen and watch Autodidact music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/autodidact/298408/main   (108 words)

  
 wish jar : Comment on principles rather than formulas...confessions of an autodidact
Maybe this is why I did not do well in school, I do not like to be told how something is, I want to discover it myself.
Ive always been an autodidact too and have always battled with schools and teachers etc or under instruction,I was the same as you at school,it was one of the reasons i started reading your diary.
I believe bjork and the director lars von trier have always said they were raised this way and are grateful for the parental negligence now because it made for their high originality,they learnt to think very independantly.
www.kerismith.com /movabletype/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=139   (1107 words)

  
 autodidact - IceRocket Tag
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autodidact · jason white · reinhard · everyday systems · didactic · reinhard engels · audiodidact ·
blogs.icerocket.com /tag/autodidact   (606 words)

  
 Top Rated: autodidact - iKarma
The following is a list of people who have been tagged as autodidact.
By default the list is sorted by how many people have tagged them as autodidact, followed by how high of a rating they have.
If you feel that you provide a service that should be listed in this category, join our service today and tag yourself as autodidact.
www.ikarma.com /tag/autodidact   (78 words)

  
 The Mavens' Word of the Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The word autodidactic is the adjectival form of the more common autodidact, which means 'a self-taught person'.
This obscure-seeming word is actually not that uncommon, perhaps because its usual context lends itself to the use of hard words.
The main derived form is your autodidactic, from the mid-nineteenth century, though we've recently been seeing a few examples of autodidacticism.
www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990720   (119 words)

  
 LiNE Zine - Vocabulary Word - Autodidactic
An autodidact at the piano; she learned to play purely by ear.
Self-accessible information on the Internet could create a society of autodidacts; the question is, though, what quality of autodidacts will we be?
Autodidactic Profiles: Self-educated People Who've Made a Difference http://www.autodidactic.com/profiles.htm
www.linezine.com /2.3/themes/autodidact.htm   (43 words)

  
 MasterMaq's Blog : Autodidact
posted on Monday, May 09, 2005 5:01 PM Autodidact
Autodidact is from Greek autodidaktos, "self-taught," from auto-, "self" + didaktos, "taught," from didaskein, "to teach."
Content is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
blog.mastermaq.ca /archive/2005/05/09/4164.aspx   (58 words)

  
 Justin Erik Halldór Smith: The Careerist vs. the Autodidact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Justin Erik Halldór Smith: The Careerist vs. the Autodidact
They self-publish their ruminations, and declare that the lack of interest on the part of university presses can only have to do with the dangerousness, the epoch-making potency, of what they have to say.
I have long been fascinated with autodidactic self-styled philosophers.
www.jehsmith.com /1/2006/11/the_careerist_v.html   (2339 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Profile For Autodidact Andy: Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A few last words to describe this wonderful work: `Patterns' is beautifully written, thoroughly objective, cogent, technically concise, conceptually accessible, and gives a succinct yet coherent discourse of the deepest, most fundamental aspects of physics.
I think Patterns is a fitting landmark in the broader path the aspiring autodidact chooses to follow.
I don't have a formal "higher" education or the mathematical tools to speak the technical language - but, like I said, I'm a fanatical layman who's bent on understanding what the hell is REALLY going on "out there" - or "in there" as the case may be...
www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A4720ULNWTXZV   (7276 words)

  
 Acting to Improve » Pedagogical impact :: Weblog :: Being an Autodidact
Pedagogical impact :: Weblog :: Being an Autodidact
Training and education have their place, but without the support of a community of practice and a demanding enough (as in stimulating but not always overwhelming) environment, learning is pointless, except as an elitist, competition-driven game.
This blog is protected by dr Dave's Spam Karma 2: 253 Spams eaten and counting...
distributedresearch.net /Linda/?p=52   (257 words)

  
 autodidact - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 AppDev: Something You Should Know by Irena Kennedy : :) What is an autodidact?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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Answer: Autodidact (pronounced ô'tō-dī'dākt') is usually referred to someone who is self-taught.
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blogs.msdn.com /irenak/archive/2007/03/07/what-is-an-autodidact.aspx   (82 words)

  
 AUTODIDACTIC PRESS - lifelong learning advocate, Charles D. Hayes
You'll enjoy a higher quality of life, make smarter career choices, and begin to see ways to better our society.
Founded in 1987, by Charles D. Hayes, Autodidactic Press represents an intellectual odyssey through more than 20 years of intensive self-education.
Read Self-University and then Beyond the American Dream and The Rapture of Maturity you will gain a profound understanding of the concept of lifelong learning.
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 LiNE Zine - Vocabulary Word - Autodidactic
An autodidact at the piano; she learned to play purely by ear.
Self-accessible information on the Internet could create a society of autodidacts; the question is, though, what quality of autodidacts will we be?
Autodidactic Profiles: Self-educated People Who've Made a Difference http://www.autodidactic.com/profiles.htm
linezine.com /2.3/themes/autodidact.htm   (43 words)

  
 Autodidact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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List all words starting with autodidact, words containing autodidact or words ending with autodidact
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 HEM Online
I'm so glad my parents made the initial choice to unschool me. I do sometimes wish that I could have discovered earlier how lucky I am but I am also glad that I found out when I did.
I can now proudly say that I'm an autodidact.
Unschooling has become my choice now, but I would have never been able to make my choice had my parents not first "rebelled" and made theirs.
www.homeedmag.com /HEM/HEM153.98/153.98_art_autodidact.html   (1447 words)

  
 Autodidact at the Suite
I was a budding lifelong learner – a novice autodidact.
I was back again on that old, creaky wooden library floor mesmerized by another world in another time.
By the time you follow your bliss through each web site as you link from one to the other through hyperlinks, you have perhaps forgotten where you began but you are most likely very pleased with where you’ve ended up.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/words/65487   (376 words)

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