My sadness about this word is that there are few fields (profitable fields) where you can still have a career strictly via autodidactism...(am I even spelling that right?)
I had always heard Abe Lincoln was a self taught lawyer; not sure if this is true. Try to do that nowadays!

My delight in this word is the thought of folks like Abe, or Ben Franklin - more of your Homo Universalis, I'd say - he rocked.

Cool idea for a thread smile

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