Definition of Self-education

1. Noun. The process of educating yourself.

Exact synonyms: Self-cultivation
Generic synonyms: Education

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-education

self-differentiation
self-directed
self-direction
self-discipline
self-disciplined
self-discovery
self-disgust
self-distance
self-distrust
self-doubt
self-doubts
self-drilling screw
self-drive
self-dual
self-educated
self-education (current term)
self-effacement
self-effacing
self-effacingly
self-effacingness
self-efficacy
self-employed
self-employed person
self-employment
self-enclosed
self-esteem
self-evaluation programs
self-evidence
self-evidency
self-evident

Literary usage of Self-education

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1908)
""We hold in America to the doctrine of self- government," says Lyman Abbott; " but we hold as the basis of self-government, self-education ; and as we will ..."

2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"The obstructions of so unhappy a self-education essentially injured his ardent genius ... Of the difficulties overcome in the self-education of genius, ..."

3. Christianity in Its Modern Expression by George Burman Foster (1921)
"Education and Self-Education. 1. The religio-ethical character can be developed only ... the capacity to self-education by the determining influences from ..."

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