self-instruction
- a word derived from instruction.
Example Sentences
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On one side of Woese, he said, was this great depth of learning — mostly acquired by self-instruction, not formal training — and a relentless questioning.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2018
Follow Abraham Lincoln’s famous self-instruction: “I do not like that man; therefore I shall get to know him better.”
From Time • Aug. 4, 2014
Only two weeks into his presidency he compiled three pages of self-instruction demanding that he be "Compassionate, Bold, New, Courageous," that he show "Zest for the job" and be seen as "not lonely, but awesome."
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of the exercises which they contain have been devised with the idea of reproducing in an elementary form the methods of self-instruction which have been employed by successful writers from Homer to Kipling.
From Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School by Miller, Edwin L.
The result is a book which can be unreservedly commended for self-instruction to the ignorant and to the too learned.
