I have strong autodidactic tendencies that some find amusing; as they do the fact I had to look up "autodidactic" in the dictionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The certain autodidactic prodigy aside, kids do need direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

We've been recommending it since we started this autodidactic hike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

I recently added a word to my vocabulary the other day.. autodidactic.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Expensive Flea Market] Reference

Observing this synthesis is one of the great joys of my autodidactic pursuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

My own reasons have more to do with the autodidactic impulse I referenced earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Film Criticism Blog-A-Thon] Reference

I would go so far as to say that this is where education is headed: autodidactic social competitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Mind games at Sporcle and the future of education] Reference

Had I known what I was doing, I might never have attempted it -- but I've always had an autodidactic nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Film Criticism Blog-A-Thon] Reference

But 1920s New England was full of autodidactic Nietzsche wannabes, many of them also neurasthenic, over-coddled, and bankrupt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference

We had our spring gathering called "ARGH" autodidactic radical gathering of homeschoolers up at Roan Mountain earlier this month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Argh reflections] Reference

First of all I should apologise to autodidactic because I was in the same city as her and didn't sort out anything to try and meet up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint Paul A Go Go] Reference

In the end, our greatest discoveries are the result of solitary pursuits; our autodidactic achievements are a string of parties of one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fine Art Friday] Reference

Life in the country has not as I think we feared even as we celebrated our new home and its potential arrested our autodidactic development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference

Life in the country has not (as I think we feared even as we celebrated our new home and its potential) arrested our autodidactic development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tracking] Reference

Also, step by step, every time a good digestible tidbit… – and this autodidactic way, i find much better like this academic brain-distortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness – Part 6. Nietzsche on Hardship | ultraorange.net] Reference

So I started getting into this definition of Structuralism by Peter Caws and it got more and more involved and especially fascinating for an autodidactic like me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Simple] Reference

I am a violin hack, an autodidactic fiddler since our teacher is back in Chicago, and we hadn't been to formal classes for eighteen months before the move, anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

While it is my hope that M-mv will continue to serve as the public synthesis of an autodidactic journey, I'd be lying if I said I'm not reconsidering my commitment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental multivitamin] Reference

I am a violin hack, an autodidactic fiddler (since our teacher is back in Chicago, and we hadn't been to formal classes for eighteen months before the move, anyway).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool.] Reference

She enjoys passing on her knowledge - much of it autodidactic - to her pupils, but insists the most enjoyable aspect of her classes is the wisdom that she soaks up from the students themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriela Epstein: Color, Form and Energy] Reference

And while it is marvelous -- in the sense of being a marvel -- that certain autodidactic prodigies can thrive on their own, that doesn't mean that "unschooling" would work for all kids or even most kids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

Thus, in order to master the language sufficiently to understand the Hebrew sources, much effort, devotion and autodidactic diligence were required, and even more were necessary to engage in Hebrew creative writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Yiddish Language and Literature.] Reference

Whatever education I possess I acquired in a free and autodidactic manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Mann - Autobiography] Reference

By 2005, Burry, an autodidactic loner with Asperger's syndrome, had grown almost frantic.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Politics] Reference

Although all my own training in economics is purely autodidactic, it seems to me that your arguments rest on faulty premises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amateur Economist] Reference

She artfully uses Helen's autodidactic approach to photography as a way of raising questions that her readers need to answer too.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

"I'm not sure I belong in the same category as those guys, I'm autodidactic," said Dickey, a two-time academic all-American at Tennessee.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The main reason to enroll to the course is because these lessons represent an efficient synthesis between autodidactic studies and traditional courses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cineuropa] Reference

Breathless has the seeds of every cranky autodidactic trait that would increasingly drive Godard's work away from everyone except the completely devoted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House Next Door] Reference

While Sugar probably doesn’t have the kind of training manuals that you’d expect from a piece of commercial software, open source has always been much more autodidactic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Walter Bender Left One Laptop Per Child - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

I became an autodidactic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Simple] Reference

And I am okay with being autodidactic ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Your Education Useless?] Reference

Haffner is autodidactic.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Statesman] Reference

Like every autodidactic I’ve ever known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

26th Nov, 2004 at 1:00 AM thanks to autodidactic!.    From Wordnik.com.  [silly quiz] Reference