0 Someone who is self-taught has taught himself or herself a particular skill: --
1 (of a skill or knowledge) learned or trained by yourself: --
Whatever may be said for the self-taught man, he loses a great deal of time because he lacks the common knowledge where he can go for his information.
Most other subjects can be learnt or even self-taught provided that one can read easily and with comprehension and speak correctly so as to be understood.
The most successful are either life-long learners who have kept their skills in good order or those who left formal education early, even at 13 years, but became self-taught learners.
Cascarino, almost entirely self-taught, wrote a small corpus of music.
Few who read this book will realize that his statistics were largely self-taught.
A self-taught artist, who worked in a colliery for only a short period, his experiences there were seared indelibly on his memory.
Musicians were proud of their self-taught status: classical training could stunt originality and creativity.
None of them appealed to him; he became a "self-taught man," a surprisingly common claim among normaliens.