http://www.metafilter.com/tags/autodidact Posts tagged with 'autodidact' at MetaFilter. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:30:24 -0800 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:30:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/84789/Back%2Dto%2Dselfschool <a href="http://magazine.jhu.edu/2009/08/the-autodidact-course-catalog/">The autodidact course catalog.</a> Twenty-two professors at Johns Hopkins propose reading lists for courses of self-study, from "Society Can Be Dangerous To Your Health" to "Higher Mathematics in Nouns and Verbs" to "Biochemistry and Human Evolution (with Rather a Lot about Mitochondria.)" If you're not going back to school this week, why not take on one of these syllabi instead? tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.84789 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:30:24 -0800 autodidact books courses education johnshopkins school syllabus university escabeche http://www.metafilter.com/72181/Self%2DMade%2DScholar <a href="http://selfmadescholar.com/b/">Self Made Scholar </a>hosts a <a href="http://www.selfmadescholar.com/classes.html">comprehensive collection of links to online classes</a> in over 80 subjects. They also link to collections of <a href="http://selfmadescholar.com/b/2007/03/07/free-online-books/">free books </a>and <a href="http://selfmadescholar.com/b/2007/03/07/free-downloadable-audio-books/">audiobooks</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72181 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:01:49 -0800 audiobooks autodidact books classes free learning online onlineclasses selfmadescholar Upton O'Good http://www.metafilter.com/63207/The%2Drevolution%2Dwill%2Dbe%2Dhardbound%2Dand%2Dhighlighted "The [textbook] industry charges outrageous prices for new textbooks while simultaneously doing everything it can to make older versions unusable or obsolete. There is simply no reason that a new calulus textbook should cost $157. The study of calculus, at least the type of calculus that most of us need to study in high school or undergraduate programs, has not changed significantly in decades." - <a href="http://www.textbookrevolution.org/">Textbook Revolution.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.63207 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:00:48 -0800 autodidact book cc colloquia copyleft copyright creativecommons education free open textbook Blazecock Pileon http://www.metafilter.com/56428/Good%2Dtimes%2Dgood%2Dtimes Autodidactic goodies on a budget: <a href="http://freecomputerbooks.com/" title="yep, free">Free computer books</a> and <a href="http://internet-tv-search-engine-swicki.eurekster.com/online+lectures/?=lectures" title="more freeness!">online lectures, seminars and instructional materials</a> from a variety of renowned institutions. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56428 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:05:13 -0800 autodidact computing distancelearning free literature mathematics science Blazecock Pileon http://www.metafilter.com/37026/The%2DAutodidact%2DProject%2Dand%2DSelected%2DQuotations%2DTherefrom <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/cynlasch.html" title="When jobs consist of little more than meaningless motions, and when social routines, formerly dignified as ritual, degenerate into role playing, the worker—whether he toils on an assembly line or holds down a high-paying job in a large bureaucracy—seeks to escape from the resulting sense of inauthenticity by creating an ironic distance from his daily routine.">"Ironic Detachment as an Escape from Routine" by Christopher Lasch</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/comparedtowhat.html" title="The President, he's got his war Folks don't know just what it's for Nobody gives us rhyme or reason Have one doubt, they call it treason We're chicken-feathers, all without one gut (God damn it!) Tryin' to make it real — compared to what? (Sock it to me, now)">Compared to What by Eugene McDaniels as performed by Les McCann</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/cynicslo.html" title="...Cynicism is enlightened false consciousness. It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has labored both successfully and in vain. It has learned its lessons in enlightenment, but it has not, and probably was not able to, put them into practice. Well-off and miserable at the same time, this consciousness no longer feels affected by any critique of ideology; its falseness is already reflexively buffered.">What Is Cynical Reason? Peter Sloterdijk Explains</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/rilke1.html" title="For our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its being may rise again, ''invisibly'', in us. We are the bees of the Invisible.">Rainer Maria Rilke on Being and the Transitory</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/einstn1.html" title="Exaggerated respect for athletics, an excess of coarse impressions which the complications of life through the technical discoveries of recent years has brought with it, the increased severity of the struggle for existence due to the economic crisis, the brutalization of political life--all these factors are hostile to the ripening of the character and the desire for real culture, and stamp our age as barbarous, materialistic, and superficial.">Albert Einstein on Intellectuals and the Masses, Specialization and the Division of Labor, and the Quality of Life</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/adorno2.html" title="The corny exoticism of such decorative world views as the astonishingly consumable Zen Buddhist one casts light upon today's restorative philosophies.">T.W. Adorno on Zen Buddhism</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/FS1.html" title="INDIAN 1: Well, I think it’s about time . . . the way the corn’s been growing for the last two or three generations . . .INDIAN 2: Look at that herd of Buffalo. They’re ready. INDIAN 1: Everything’s living the Great Spirit’s way. In harmony. INDIAN 2: He’ll be here soon. INDIAN 1: The true white brother’s coming home. Remember what the Great Spirit said? If we did what we were supposed to do and lived according to the plan? White brother would finish his work in the East and come back to us. INDIAN 2: It’ll be nice to have the family together again. CONQUISTADOR 1: Buenos Dios, amigos!">Temporarily Humboldt County</a> and <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/seinfeld1.html" title="ELAINE: Maybe she's there in spirit. How about that? GEORGE: If you're a spirit, and you can travel to other dimensions and galaxies, and find out the mysteries of the universe, you think she's going to want to hang around Drexler's funeral home on Ocean Parkway? ELAINE: George, I met this woman! She is not traveling to any other dimensions. GEORGE: You know how easy it is for dead people to travel? It's not like getting on a bus. One second. It's all mental.">Pondering the Spirit World with Seinfeld</a>--just a taste of <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/sitemap.html" title="Are you an autodidact, a self-educated person? Did you learn most of what matters to you on your own, even if you went to college? Are you a disgruntled student, teacher, or professor, dissatisfied with the knowledge industry and the bureaucratization of intellect? Are you concerned about the role of the intellect not just as a form of specialized professionalism but as equipment for living? Are you interested in the intellectual life of society as a whole, in its informal and extra-institutional aspects as much as in its formal institutions? Do you strive to make yourself and people around you more conscious and critical thinkers? How do you locate yourself in the universe of knowledge? If any of these questions strike a chord in you, you too may wish to benefit from the Autodidact Project.">The Autodidact Project</a> by Ralph Dumain <small>(Librarian-Archivist-Information Specialist Researcher-Scholar)</small> Can you dig it? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.37026 Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:56:31 -0800 adorno autodidact education einstein essay essays humbolt lasch lesmccann mccann quotes rilke selftaught sloterdijk y2karl