When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts

    Jimi Hendrix was an influential self-taught electric guitarist and singer-songwriter. [33] Kurt Cobain, lead singer and guitarist for Nirvana, was self-taught on guitar. Noel Gallagher, singer, musician, multi-instrumentalist. At the age of thirteen, Noel received six months probation for theft from a corner shop.

  3. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism

    Autodidacts are self-taught [1] humans who learn a subject-of-study's aboutness through self-study. [2] [3] This educative praxis (process) may involve, complement, or be an alternative to formal education.

  4. Mary Everest Boole - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Everest_Boole

    Mary Everest Boole Curve stitching. Mary Everest Boole (11 March 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire – 17 May 1916 in Middlesex, England) was a self-taught mathematician who is best known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole.

  5. I've taught kids in multiple countries. I believe these 3 ...

    www.aol.com/news/ive-taught-kids-multiple...

    Instead, students need to learn these skills: critical thinking, creativity, and self-awareness. When I left Australia to continue teaching overseas , I was told that my beliefs about education ...

  6. Hayy ibn Yaqdhan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayy_ibn_Yaqdhan

    His son, Edward Pococke Jr. published a Latin translation in 1671, subtitled "The Self-Taught Philosopher." [ 6 ] [ 7 ] George Keith the Quaker translated it into English in 1674, Baruch Spinoza called for a Dutch translation, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz championed the book in German circles, and a copy of the book went to the Sorbonne .

  7. Jon Gnagy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Gnagy

    Jon Gnagy (January 13, 1907 – March 7, 1981) was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting You Are an Artist, which began on the NBC network and included analysis of paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, and his later syndicated Learn to Draw series.

  8. Heartwarming Stories of Teachers Who Changed Their Students ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/heartwarming-stories...

    Here was confirmation that my mother had taught a now-famous writer! But my eyes came to a standstill reading the next paragraph, in which Pierce described writing her first fiction as a sixth grader.

  9. Opal Lee took on the 2.5-mile walk on Juneteenth, despite temperatures that felt over 100 degrees.