Self-Directed Learning: Autodidacticism

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Self-directed learning

Main article: Autodidacticism


Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is a term used to describe self-directed learning. One may
become an autodidact at nearly any point in one's life. Notable autodidacts include Abraham
Lincoln (U.S. president), Srinivasa Ramanujan (mathematician), Michael Faraday (chemist and
physicist), Charles Darwin (naturalist), Thomas Alva Edison (inventor), Tadao
Ando (architect), George Bernard Shaw (playwright), Frank Zappa (composer, recording engineer,
film director), and Leonardo da Vinci (engineer, scientist, mathematician).

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