Sentences with phrase «autodidacts who»

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.

Graham Hancock is an audacious autodidact who believes that long before ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Egypt there existed an even more glorious civilization.

Like John Nash, Bookstein is an outsider, an autodidact who dared to think «outside the box,» taking on problems that most experts considered unsolvable.

Not exact matches

I grant you that Rand, an autodidact Russian émigré (the daughter of a commercial family whose property was confiscated by the Soviets, and an anticommunist intellectual who fell in love with America) was indeed an atheist.

Ironically, this is an apt metaphor for Judt's entire life: the son of Eastern European Jews who never felt completely at home in England; an autodidact at Cambridge who never learned historiography or became part of a dedicated «school»; an expert by training in French social thought with serious and evolving interests in Eastern European history; and an American denizen and critic without the faintest bond to the United States.

He was based on a drop - out know - it - all autodidact named W.J.M. Bottle, who was billed in vaudeville as Datas, The Memory Man.

Hoffman is set to play Ace Bernstein, an autodidact caught up in gambling on the horse - racing circuit who recently completed a four - year prison sentence.

An autodidact is a someone not only who is self - taught, but who is also still learning.

Michael Slenske writes, «in Painter's prime, -LSB-...] he lorded over the L.A. scene like the bastard son of P. T. Barnum and Suge Knight, a street - styled autodidact art savant who was mentored by a Who's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.&raqwho was mentored by a Who's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.&raqWho's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.&raqWho of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.»

Nick Frank is a 38 - year - old autodidact, who has been teaching himself how to take pictures since 2010.

Such a pitiful social - media plea would have been unthinkable in Painter's prime, when he lorded over the L.A. scene like the bastard son of P. T. Barnum and Suge Knight, a street - styled autodidact art savant who was mentored by a Who's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenbergwho was mentored by a Who's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin KippenbergWho's Who of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin KippenbergWho of legendary dealers, including Leo Castelli and Walter Hopps, by day and by night scandalized cities from L.A. to Berlin alongside art gods like Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger.

It is not by chance that many of the autodidacts fascinated the canonical modernist artists with their paintings and sculptures, who often publically supported them.