Students: could you be an autodidact?

By Sarah Gonnet. Forget exam-centered courses and £9k tuition fees, there are other ways to learn. But if you're going to educate yourself, you'll need more than motivation.
What do William Blake, Jimi Hendrix, HP Lovecraft, Leonardo Da Vinci, James Watt and Alan Moore have in common? They are all autodidacts. That is to say that they were all, at least partially, self-taught. Few of them finished school. None of them finished a degree course. Instead they chose to follow their curiosity and educate themselves to become specialists in their respective areas. Today, students are surrounded with pressure to focus on qualifications, rather than exploring their interests. Read more...