I assert that a person becomes an autodidact when he assumes total responsibility for his own learning and the primary drive to know comes from within and not as a result of others' expectations.

Self-education is a purposeful endeavor in which we are aware of the perceptual process and its effect on our judgment. We discipline ourselves to favor objectivity regardless of the nature of inquiry, especially when the answers we seek reveal results with which we are uncomfortable. Self-education is a perpetual process in which a left step of... See more