self-educated

William Butler Yeats once called Carlyle “the chief inspirer of self-educated men.”

But her father was a self-educated man, whose life had been given to books, whose only hobby was the culture and study of bees.

I judged him to be of Irish descent, and it was patent that he was self-educated.

Setting aside the showy accomplishments which go for nothing as mental culture she was self-educated.