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Re: Autodidact Followupby Anonymous Monk |
on Oct 07, 2002 at 13:07 UTC ( [id://203314]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
"Autodidact"? Why not just "a self-taught person"? Eschew obfuscatory pedagogy, my friend! It is ironic that those most often guilty of pedantry are those in the ivory tower (decidedly "non-auto-didact-a-tory") I doubt any among us are purely "autodidactical or non-autodidactical". Learn from yourself, but don't discount those around you, and their role in such "self-teaching." Does a lesson taken from someone who does not hold the formal position of "teacher" count as a mark for or against auto-didact-ism? What about the things we all learn here, where we read the conversations and thoughts of others willing to share? Even if we do so at a computer in a room by ourselves -- "on our own", are we really "teaching ourselves"? I believe it's an artifical distinction. n.b. one connotation of the word "didactic" is being a judge of morality.
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