Scott Beauchamp, TAC contributor: The strength of the autodidact is the same as any outsider, only amplified by passion: critical perspective. What the self-educated man lacks in polish, convention, ...

Courses are often required, for example, for professional certification. But sometimes you can avoid courses, which are often costly, inconvenient, and larded with masses of material you’ll never use ...

Sir, Dan Fox (“Pretentious — and proud”, Life & Arts, February 6) quotes Billy Bragg’s inaccurate but widely repeated assertions that David Bowie grew up on a council estate and went to art college.

When Bill Gates was still a teenager, he would sneak out of his family’s house before dawn and ride his bike to a building on the campus of the University of Washington. He had discovered that the ...

Shortly after announcing plans to release a reunion album, rock-gaze legends Swervedriver have unveiled the record’s third track: “Autodidact.” Following the effort’s first single, “Deep Wound” ...