self-educated

William Butler Yeats once called Carlyle “the chief inspirer of self-educated men.”

He was a self-educated-man; he had formerly been a sapper and he was one of the best and handiest working engineers alive.

The older man was self-educated, brought up to a religious belief that was under attack by scholars and scientists.

It may be said, however, that Pauline Garcia was self-educated as a vocalist.

It must not be ignored that a startling proportion of our great business men are what are termed self-educated.

One of the most remarkable of self-educated men, James Ferguson, when a poor agricultural laborer, constructed a globe.