self-taught
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
self-taught (comparative more self-taught, superlative most self-taught)
- Educated or trained by oneself.
- 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN:
- It's this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.
Translations[edit]
educated by oneself — see self-educated