Plural of autodidact; multiple people who teach themselves and gain knowledge through independent study rather than formal education.
Simple plural of autodidact, from Greek autos (self) + didakt- (taught). The plural form allows discussion of entire groups of self-educated people.
Silicon Valley was essentially built by autodidacts—engineers and programmers who learned by doing rather than through traditional computer science degrees—yet companies now obsessively recruit from top universities, perhaps missing the very trait that built the industry.
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