Download or read book Autodidactic written by James W. Parkinson and published by Kentucky Publishing Services. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that America is a literate country is a misconception. There are more than thirty million adults in the United States today who cannot read, and spectator mentality and an obsession with instant gratification prevent many from retaining a true commitment to literacy. The issue persists despite a wealth of dedicated teachers across the country. Through no fault of their own, many educators are unable to excite students about learning to read and write. In response to this problem, James W. Parkinson argues that people must become responsible for their own education and learn the importance of being self-taught in reading and writing. In Autodidactic: Self-Taught, Parkinson shares his personal stories and discoveries about how to take charge of one's own learning, weaving together practical wisdom and historical statements issued by some of the world's most remarkable leaders. Parkinson details his failures and successes, his inability to engage intellectually in his youth, and his efforts to educate himself over a span of forty years -- all to remind readers that education is a lifelong challenge with no shortcuts. This book promises to motivate students, doctors, factory workers, and flight attendants alike to take matters into their own hands when it comes to learning in order to change their lives for the better.
Download or read book The Day I Became an Autodidact written by Kendall Hailey and published by Delta. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MY HIGH SCHOOL classmates completed four years of college last June, a date at which I too had completed four years of study. Their graduation was greeted by presents, parties and diplomas. Mine never occurred. What studies and studies and never graduates? The answer can be found in one word: autodidact. It can be used to describe anyone who is self-taught, and the self-taught are almost anyone. 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. 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. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Irving Thalberg), and autodidacts interested in all that and marriage, too (Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon).
Download or read book Introduction to Attic Greek written by Donald J. Mastronarde and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text features: • Full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts • Self-contained instructional chapters, with challenging, carefully tailored exercises • Progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions, tenses, and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax • Readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon, Lysias, Plato, Aristophanes, and Thucydides. • Concise introduction to the history of the Greek language • Composite list of verbs with principal parts, and an appendix of all paradigms • Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries Additional Resources: •Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreek.org •Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (978-0-520-27574-4)
Download or read book Clay written by Suzanne Staubach and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a third of the houses in the world are made of clay. Clay vessels were instrumental in the invention of cooking, wine and beer making, and international trade. Our toilets are made of clay. The first spark plugs were thrown on the potter’s wheel. Clay has played a vital role in the health and beauty fields. Indeed, this humble material was key to many advances in civilization, including the development of agriculture and the invention of baking, architecture, religion, and even the space program. In Clay, Suzanne Staubach takes a lively look at the startling history of the mud beneath our feet. Told with verve and erudition, this story will ensure you won’t see the world around you in quite the same way after reading the book.
Download or read book The Passion to Learn written by Joan Solomon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inquiry into self-study provides fresh insight into the motivation to learn. Beginning and ending with comprehensive and stimulating discussions of learning theories, it includes fourteen case studies of autodidactism in informal learning.
Download or read book Studies in Words written by C. S. Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.
Download or read book Existential Aspirations written by Charles Douglas Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential Aspirations affirms that active, continuous learning is what makes life worthwhile. Thoughtful living can create meaning anywhere you look. In this collection of provocative essays, author Charles Hayes gives close examination to subjects that we often take for granted. He explores the value of thinking for yourself, taking responsibility as a citizen in a democracy, and overcoming bias to pursue the better argument. Topics range from memories, movies, gullibility, and self-help culture to honor, war, capitalism, and justice; from rethinking the pursuit of happiness to coming to terms with our own mortality. Known for his astute wisdom, Hayes includes a treasure of aphorisms as a bonus.
Download or read book Autodidact and I Dare to Be Different written by Julio Hernandez and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close your eyes. Take a deep breath and relax your body and soul. Poetry is not only a means to elevate your spirit but a way to broaden your realm of thinking. Contained in this book you will find one man's interpretation of the world and how he has chosen to adapt his life to whatever obstacles are set before him. There will be poems that will move you to tears, while others may offend the very essence of your character but have no fear for at the end of the book you will find that you are much more enlightened as a result. Inspired by the life experiences of the poet, you will be able to understand first hand what it was like growing up in a poor urban neighborhood with nothing more than a dream to keep you warm. You will see that motivation can be found in many forms and even in unexpected places. The darkest, most bitter life experiences can be inspirational and the innocence of a child can turn your darkest night into sunshine that warms your body from head to toe. All it takes is a little Faith!
Download or read book Autodidact written by Sanjay Rajarao and published by The Little Booktique Hub. This book was released on with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autodidact is an anthology of compassion and hardwork compiled by an amazing compiler. Compassion gives us the ability to understand someone else's situation and the desire to take action to improve their lives whereas hardwork is the key to achieve anything in life. Compassion and hardwork are two sides of coin but can sometimes go hand by hand. Often we may work hard to achieve something, but we may not be compassionate to others. A man must be composed of compassion and hardwork, for him to reach the heights of success. Autodidact is a collection of poetry, stories and open letters, that talks about how important it is to be hardworking and how being compassionate helps in life for an individual to grow.
Download or read book Phil s Java Tutorial Java for the Autodidact written by Philip Perry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a short introduction to the Java programming language, focusing on the Java base language and features like JDBC and filesystem access that all programmers need. A professional programmer or computer science student should be able to get through the entire book in a few nights.
Download or read book Autodidact written by Khali Raymond and published by savage writer publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning is something that doesn't stop after you've gotten all your necessary degrees. Life is a consistent teacher with the ability to school even the sharpest of veterans. There is always an opportunity to expand upon your knowledge. Take the initiative to seek ways on how to improve yourself. Try a different hobby. Start a conversation with someone you haven't gotten to know very well. Explore a new city or country. Humans are nomadic by nature. Tap into that please.
Download or read book written by ʻAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥazm Ibn al-Nafīs and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theologus Autodidactus of Ibn al-Nafīs. Edited with an introduction, translation and notes by... Max Meyerhof and Joseph Schacht.
Download or read book Centerburg Tales written by Robert McCloskey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-10-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centerburg might be your town. Grampa Hercules and his never-ending tall tales, Dulcy Dooner, the uncooperative citizen, unbusinesslike Uncle Ulysses and his friendly lunchroom, the flustered sheriff, the pompous judge—they are all as American as they come. But there's a subtle and delightful difference. In Centerburg, along with the routine of day-to-day living, the most preposterous things keep happening. But nothing fazes Homer Price! Ragweeds taller than fire ladders, music that sets a whole town dancing—he solves these problems calmly and efficiently. Homer Price is a boy with a good supply of common sense—and ingenuity! Homer's Grampa Hercules is a delightful old rascal and his extravagent reminiscences of his youth are the starting point of many of the episodes. The chapter titles are as enticing as the chapters themselves: The Hide-a-Ride, Looking for Gold, Ever So Much More So, Experiment 13, Grampa Hercules and the Gravitty-Bitties, Pie and Punch and You-Know-Whats. Mr. McCloskey's characters have warmth and kindness and a healthy curiosity; but they are not above a few minor faults and foibles. They are unmistakenably alive. Like Mr. McCloskey himself, they are perpetually amused by the everyday hazards and discrepancies around them.
Download or read book A Power Stronger Than Itself written by George E. Lewis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall’s kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, A Power Stronger Than Itself uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art.
Download or read book Lady E S Drower s Scholarly Correspondence written by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879?1972) kept up a lively correspodence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid?1960s.
Download or read book A Great Idea at the Time written by Alex Beam and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial ''dead white men,'' are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago, began as an educational movement, and evolved into a successful marketing idea. Why did a million American households buy books by Hippocrates and Nicomachus from door-to-door salesmen? And how and why did the great books fall out of fashion? In A Great Idea at the Time Alex Beam explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age. Populated with memorable characters, A Great Idea at the Time will leave readers asking themselves: Have I read Lucretius's De Rerum Natura lately? If not, why not?
Download or read book Hypatia s Heritage written by Margaret Alic and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1986-11-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century.
