Famous self-learners

Have you ever thought that the creator of Apple, Steve Jobs,has teached himself ?
Unbelievable, hein??!!
Here you can find some other famous persons who have learned by themselves without studying at school, this is what we call autodidact people.

But first some ideas and tips about self-learning:
- Autodidact/self-educate/self-directed learning/automath/self-taught person
- An autodidact is a person who has the will and the real desire to learn by himself in a certain field and who in general has a passion for this specific subject; he wants to succeed in education and takes the decision to excel in it.
- You may have been an autodidact in your whole life even though you have been to school: you may have learned things in another way independent to school, by yourself.
- It does not only means that you are lonely to self educate yourself: some autodidacts have spent hours in libraries and in front of their computer on websites to learn.
- Some people will never self educate themselves without anyone because they need the guidance of someone. To be a self-educated person is a real skill since it means that you have the power to discover and understand things on your own.
- Tools to teach ourselves: books, computers, human, projects…
- Reasons for self-educating ourselves: to do it at our own rhythm, cheaper (than universities or school), make it a leisure than a hard time, you learn more and faster than in a scholar way.
- Steps before self-learning: to evaluate the needs, to define objectives, determine resources learning; evaluate what is expected from the person.

Famous autodidacts: people who have learned by themselves:

Benjamin Franklin: writer and physician

Socrates: famous Greek philosopher

Steve Jobs: inventor of the personal computer: he went to high school and then audited classes.

Henry Ford: the founder of the ford cars company and of the Fordism theory.

Walt Disney: alias Walter Elias Disney: American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator and entrepreneur.

Stanley Kubrick: he stated “…I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for my pleasure until I was 19 years old.”

Ernest Hemingway: an American novelist and short story writer; After high school, Hemingway did not want to go to college. Instead, at age eighteen, he began his writing career as a cub reporter.

Abraham Lincoln: the 16th president of the USA

Sir Isaac Newton: an English Philosopher, mathematician, physician, astronomer and alchemist.

Leonardo DaVinci: scientist, mathematician, painter, inventor, engineer, and sculptor.