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- noun Plural form of
didact .
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The dogma SHOULD contain the qualifier “SOME”, but for the vast range of dittoheads and red meat didacts, it does not. steve duncan Says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Government Makes the Stuff We Need 2009
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Very often the most high-powered and sui generis thinkers, researchers, and scientists are auto-didacts.
Matthew Yglesias » What Really Matters in Higher Education 2010
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Very often the most high-powered and sui generis thinkers, researchers, and scientists are auto-didacts.
Matthew Yglesias » What Really Matters in Higher Education 2010
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Reading these comments leads me to wonder if there are essential differences between poets who are auto-didacts and those who were poetically trained (i.e. contemporary professional poets).
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Otherwise, we could all be auto-didacts - since they invented books, we could all have done distance learning, and some of our brightest people did just that.
An Online Economics Professor Reveals All - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Affairs reeks worse than fictional didacts of ‘Children Overboard’ – an incident that lent an incredibly absurd air of credibility to a PM who said
Archive 2007-07-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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Affairs reeks worse than fictional didacts of ‘Children Overboard’ – an incident that lent an incredibly absurd air of credibility to a PM who said
Who Now Know He’s Merely Mortal Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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It's as if he's dedicated to the notion that art is the preserve of didacts and dilettantes such as himself.
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The Likud became, infamously, an unworkable mash of working class entitlists and small business libertarians, of Sephardi rebels and Yekke didacts.
JTA - Recent News 2009
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(Then again, we had a house rule against what we called the misanthropic didacts.
Wizards of the Coast Declares War On Open Gaming « Geek Related 2008
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