Some of its adherents were middle-class, and others were working-class autodidacts.
Shagan shows that new ideas can produce a very strange amalgam in an autodidact.
An autodidact, with no undergraduate degree, he brought a powerful intellect and matching moral conviction to the rapidly changing worlds of health and social welfare.
Improvement in this model remained the province of the heroic autodidact, because only the solitary man or woman could choose such arduous labor.
Negative reactions to modernism are better explained as a response conditioned by a literary discourse in which plebeian autodidacts as well as middle-class readers participated.
Every lively person is to some degree an autodidact, a continuous learner, absorbing attitudes and information in the process of adapting to a physical and cultural environment.
The book, written in an eccentric prose style replete with fragmentary sentences, is part classical liberal manifesto, part elucubration of an enthusiastic statistical autodidact.
An autodidact, he taught himself to read and write and the elements of arithmetic and technical drawing.
