It's pretty simple: an autodidact is a self-taught person.
It comes from the Greek roots Auto and didaktikos, or self and teaching. That makes me the Autodidact Bear. Below is a link to the Wikipedia page on autodidacticism, which actually does a decent job of putting the concept into a broader perspective in the history of education.
The main takeaway for our purposes is that the internet has created more opportunities for self-teaching than have ever existed before in any educational setting.
So let's start exploring!
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