Fall, winter and spring were theirs to torture me as they liked. No doubt a slave in some previous incarnation, I obeyed my teachers without fail during three out of four seasons. Until I saw the words summer and mandatory brought together, I had been the model of a mild-mannered student. As the list hit the ground, I became an autodidact.

I became an autodidact in the time it took to tear open a midsummer missive from my high school, discover that it was a mandatory, summer reading list and throw it to the ground. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Irving Thalberg), and autodidacts interested in all that and marriage, too (Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon). Rockefeller) autodidacts interested in getting there (Henry Ford, the Wright Brothers, Amelia Earhart) and those who created the music to carry us along (John Philip Sousa, Aaron Copland) novelists (Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens) playwrights (Noel Coward, Clare Boothe Luce, William Saroyan, Tom Stoppard) film makers (D. There have been autodidacts of every type: the father of our country (George Washington) and quite a few barons of industry (Andrew Carnegie, John D. It can be used to describe anyone who is self-taught, and the self-taught are almost anyone. What studies and studies and never graduates? The answer can be found in one word: autodidact. Their graduation was greeted by presents, parties and diplomas.

MY HIGH SCHOOL classmates completed four years of college last June, a date at which I too had completed four years of study.

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