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| − | An '''autodidact''' is one who is self-taught; an automath.
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| − | Origin: Gr. Self-taught. <ref>http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?autodidact</ref>
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| − | ==Famous autodidacts==
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| − | *[[Louisa May Alcott]]
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| − | *[[Frederick Douglass]]
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| − | *[[Barry Goldwater]]
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| − | *[[Washington Irving]]
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| − | *Ray Kroc
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| − | *[[Rush Limbaugh]]
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| − | *[[Abraham Lincoln]]
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| − | *[[Edgar Allan Poe]]
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| − | *[[Alexander Pope]]
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| − | *John D. Rockefeller
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| − | *[[Karl Rove]]
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| − | *Colonel Sanders
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| − | *David Sarnoff
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| − | *[[George Bernard Shaw]]
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| − | *[[Zachary Taylor]]
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| − | *Nikola Tesla
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| − | *[[Leo Tolstoy]]
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| − | *[[Harry S. Truman]]
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| − | *George Westinghouse
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| − | *Edith Wharton
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| − | *[[Walt Whitman]]
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| − | *John Greenleaf Whittier
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| − | *[[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]
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| − | *August Wilson
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| − | *[[Frank Lloyd Wright]]
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| − | *Chuck Yeager
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| − | <ref>http://www.realityspoken.com/autodidactic</ref>
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| − | ==References==
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| − | <references/>
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