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Re: Autodidact Followup

by Anonymous Monk
on Oct 07, 2002 at 13:07 UTC ( [id://203314]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Autodidact Followup

"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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Re: Re: Autodidact Followup
by ignatz (Vicar) on Oct 07, 2002 at 14:38 UTC
    > "Autodidact"? Why not just "a self-taught person"?

    God forbid someone should have a vocabulary larger than what's used on the Home Shopping Network. As a three time college dropout, it didn't take me long to figure out how to search Websters. I'm sure our brother and sister Monks can do the same.

    Good language skills are not only for those in ivory towers, but anyone who wants to express the true depth of their ideas.

    Recommended reading:

    1. 1984
    2. William Safire's Sunday New York Times column.
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