self-education

Noun

Meaning

the process of educating yourself

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

self-cultivation self-awareness autodidact autodidactic personal development self-care self-study self-actualization self-learning personal growth self-training self-directed learning self-advancement voluntary knowledge independent study

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Hypernyms

education

Related terms

self-educated

Examples

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. Isaac Asimov

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet. Yvon Chouinard

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education. Thomas Carlyle

It is not my intention to denounce modern education. If it is bad, it may be said that all education is bad which is not self-education, and quite a lot of self-education is going on today - some of it in our schools, under the very noses of the teachers! Robertson Davies

Close letter words and terms

self-educated self-educated man self-educated person self-educator self-educators self-effacement