autodidact, n.All

The Autodidact (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessarily an adult, because only someone able to find his own norms can learn from a book with no one standing over him.

The Autodidact (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessarily uneven — sublime in places, insipid in others — because he forms himself in an art by the soarings of his genius, without the support of science.

The Autodidact (n.) lacks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠time: he swallows the past into his present knowledge and the future into the present's smooth consequence, never having been raised through the crises that open each new phase.