An autodidact is a self-taught person. Despite the old saw that “an autodidact has a fool for a teacher,” we celebrate autodidacts here at Peakmemory. Indeed, autodidactism under girds the virtue of life of long learning.
Wikipedia has this fascinating list of autodidacts. The article makes mention of Jack London’s most interesting novel Martin Eden.
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