self-education
nounEtymology From self- + education.
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Education The act or process of educating oneself by one's own efforts.
- The directors of the company encouraged this movement for self-education by granting the use of a small cottage which stood at the rear of the present building.1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
- Related terms
- self-educated