Friday, February 15, 2013

autodidact -- Sam

au·to·di·dact t-ddkt)
n.
A self-taught person.




[From Greek autodidaktos, self-taught : auto-, auto- + didaktos, taught; see didactic.]




auto·di·dactic adj.

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Sam prefers being an online student to being a student in a classroom; I’m guessing he’d prefer being an autodidact if the state acknowledged his learning this way.

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