Assignment desk: Jordan Peterson and Ta-Nehisi Coates owe their popularity to being autodidacts in an age of educated conformity.
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Lots of profs are autodidacts. Especially the good ones.
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are we using "autodidact" as a derogatory label here? it seems you guys might be conflating "self-taught" with "speaking authoritatively on topics for which one lacks qualifications"
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being self-taught on a topic is not a disqualifying attribute per se; unless one's self-education is shown to be lacking
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