An "autodidact" is a person who teaches themselves things without the help of a teacher or formal education. They gain knowledge and skills through their own efforts and self-study. Full definition
This exhibition goes on from there to span two decades of work that weaves together personal and political narratives; reflects Barrada's ongoing research into displacement and dislocation, modes of education, and forms of abstraction; and embraces the resistance and strategies of autodidacts. (pacegallery.com)
I've always joked that my overriding educational objective was to produce autodidacts who did their own laundry, and we're getting there... In the past I've kept a detailed blog recording our activities and hashing out issues of philosophy and pedagogy. (firstthings.com)
David Thewlis as the furious, self - hating, seductive autodidact in Naked (1993), Brenda Blethyn and Marianne Jean - Baptiste as the unlikely mother and daughter in Secrets & Lies (1996), and Imelda Staunton as the empathetic illegal abortionist in Vera Drake (2004) come immediately to mind, but they are only a handful among many others, including at least a half dozen of the characters in Topsy - Turvy. (criterion.com)