0 the activity of learning new things on your own that make you a more skilled or able person: --
1 learning new things on your own that make you a more skilled or able person: --
In constructing the rule base, there are generally three ways as described in the followings: (1) expert's knowledge or experiences; (2) self-improvement; (3) fuzzy modeling.
Many learned men visited the library for study and self-improvement.
It is not that self-improvement disappeared but it came to be enacted within more complicated constraints.
This new incarnation of self-improvement linked less lofty intellectual standards to active social engagement.
According to the new ideal that emerged out of these efforts, private self-improvement was no longer enough.
Domesticated pragmatism is therefore a doctrine of building, through informed trial and error, convergent improvement and self-improvement in science and politics.
Even more strikingly, 391 of these 402 narrators tied such dreams of self-improvement and self-realization to activities in the labour market.
Such groups were assumed to lack intelligence, self-control and the potential for self-improvement idealized by the middle and respectable working classes.