An “autodidact” (aw-toh-DYE-dakt) – from the Greek – is someone who is self-taught.
Example (as used by Kevin Baker in a New York Times article about Abraham Lincoln): “He is our ultimate autodidact, a man who made himself from nothing into a lawyer, a legislator – a president.”
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