Some of its adherents were middle-class, and others were working-class autodidacts.
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Shagan shows that new ideas can produce a very strange amalgam in anautodidact.
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Anautodidact, with no undergraduate degree, he brought a powerful intellect and matching moral conviction to the rapidly changing worlds of health and social welfare.
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Improvement in this model remained the province of the heroicautodidact, because only the solitary man or woman could choose such arduous labor.
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Negative reactions to modernism are better explained as a response conditioned by a literary discourse in which plebeian autodidacts as well as middle-class readers participated.
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Every lively person is to some degree anautodidact, a continuous learner, absorbing attitudes and information in the process of adapting to a physical and cultural environment.
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The book, written in an eccentric prose style replete with fragmentary sentences, is part classical liberal manifesto, part elucubration of an enthusiastic statisticalautodidact.
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Anautodidact, he taught himself to read and write and the elements of arithmetic and technical drawing.
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Some autodidacts spend a great deal of time reviewing the resources of libraries and educational websites.
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Many notable contributions have been made by autodidacts.
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All architects must be autodidacts to keep up to date with new standards, new regulations, or new methods.
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She learned these languages mostly by self-effort, as anautodidact.
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Markus is anautodidactwith a realistic style.
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He was anautodidact, and wrote plays, historical novels, religious works, and poems.
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For his literary formation responds with full sense the wordautodidact.
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