Sentences with phrase «become autodidacts»

They become autodidacts of a dozen different orders, teaching themselves everything from agriculture to medicine.

Will we all become autodidacts?

He became an autodidact, learning from books lent to him by family members.

The book I'm picking I haven't read in awhile, but it's one of my favorites, called The Day I became an Autodidact by Kendall Hailey.

However, Döring found these studies too theoretical for his taste, and decided to leave the academy and become an autodidact.

Not exact matches

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.

Nine years ago, autodidact filmmaker Shane Carruth burst onto the indie scene with the abstruse and complex sci - fi thriller «Primer,» which made him a Sundance darling in 2004 when it won the Grand Jury Prize and went on to become a cult hit.

The autodidact Guston gained a foothold in New York's art scene in the 1950s and became one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expression around Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko.