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1. The Passion to Learn

   An Inquiry into Autodidactism

   Edited by Joan Solomon

   This is the first book to provide a detailed overview and analysis of autodidactism, or self-education. Autodidacts' strong preference for teaching themselves is likely to manifest itself, in childhood, as a pronounced resistance to formal schooling. However, in later life, an autodidact's passion...

   Published August 27th 2003 by Routledge