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  2. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Charles Henry Davis was a self-educated [76] American astronomer [77] and rear admiral of the United States Navy. [78] He was one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences [79] and he wrote many scientific books. [80] [81] Hua Luogeng was a self-taught Chinese mathematician. [82]

  3. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).

  4. Intelligentsia - Wikipedia

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    The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; [1] as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers. [2] [3]

  5. Personal development - Wikipedia

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    Since Maslow himself believed that only a small minority of people self-actualize—he estimated one percent [68] —his hierarchy of needs had the consequence that organizations came to regard self-actualization or personal development as occurring at the top of the organizational pyramid, while openness and job security in the workplace would ...

  6. Lifelong learning - Wikipedia

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    Lifelong learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" [1] pursuit of learning for either personal or professional reasons.. Lifelong learning is important for an individual's competitiveness and employability, but also enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development.

  7. Unschooling - Wikipedia

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    Unschooling is a practice of self-driven informal learning characterized by a lesson-free and curriculum-free implementation of homeschooling. [1] Unschooling encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, under the belief that the more personal learning is, the more meaningful, well-understood, and therefore useful it is to the child.

  8. 30 thoughtful gifts for people with anxiety for stress ... - AOL

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    These days many people reach for modern solutions to insomnia like supplements and special ASMR playlists, but there's a simple old-school solution we recommend: the original Dohm Classic sound ...

  9. Educated (memoir) - Wikipedia

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    Educated is a 2018 memoir by the American ... but what they felt was self-sufficiency." ... Westover chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people ...