Usually means: Self-directed learning without formal instruction.
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  1. autodidacticism: Collins English Dictionary
  2. autodidacticism: Wiktionary
  3. Autodidacticism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (autodidacticism)

▸ noun:  self-education; self-directed learning.
▸ noun:  A belief or predisposition in favor of self-directed learning.

Similar:
auto-education, autoeducation, heutagogy, adult education, pedagoguery, acquisitionism, autology, didacticism, ecopedagogy, disciplinism, more...

Opposite:
formal education

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Similar:
auto-education, autoeducation, heutagogy, adult education, pedagoguery, acquisitionism, autology, didacticism, ecopedagogy, disciplinism, more...

Opposite:
formal education



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