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Tag: autodidact

  • Learning to Dance in the Lab

    Learning to Dance in the Lab

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    I’m immersing myself in research for the upcoming career transition. If I had time, I’d be taking classes. As it is? I’m an autodidact. When I want to learn something, I take a running leap and deep dive into everything I can lay my hands on. Which is a surprising amount, especially when you are…

  • School at Home

    School at Home

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      This isn’t going to be a long post, it’s a quick intro to a topic I’ll be blogging on at least once a week going forward.  The Little Man is 15 now, and a sophomore, and would like me to let you know that he’s being homeschooled. I talked to him at the beginning…

  • College, Young’Uns, and Ugly Reality Redux

    College, Young’Uns, and Ugly Reality Redux

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    Wolfie read back over his post from Sunday, and sent me a bit more. He had thought he’d do it as a comment, but I’m glad he didn’t! It’s long, but thorough and worth reading.  For my adoptive brother-in-spirit, thanks!  Wolfie here. Cedar was sitting very hard on the urge to snark at that there…

  • Autodidactism

    Autodidactism

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    I was listening to a podcast presenting a brief biography of Andrew Carnegie the other day, and although I’m somewhat familiar with the man, and very familiar with his legacy of libraries, I think the philosophy that led him to establish more than 2500 libraries bears repeating, and often. He believed that compiling knowledge in a…

  • Going On

    Going On

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    To follow up with yesterday’s post on very early childhood education, I was looking at photos of my children when they were young, and remembering how they interacted. Because they modeled how they were treated, they taught each other. When the Little Man was 2, and the Eldest was 8 going on nine, she would…

  • Pursuit of Polymath

    Pursuit of Polymath

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    I’ve been called a Renaissance woman, a Heinlein girl, and asked many times how I can reconcile my artistic tendencies with a passion for science. The reality is that I grew up with no barriers, no one telling me ‘you can’t do that because you’re a girl.’ I took to heart early, Heinlein’s words that…

  • The Homeschooled Adult

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      My mother and I have not always gotten along. But one thing I have always been grateful to her for was homeschooling me. In the last year or so, after I’d re-started college as what they euphemistically term a non-traditional student, I had a professor ask me, ‘are you an autodidact?’ Why yes, yes…