Meanings
nounself-education (plural self-educations)
plural self-educations
- educationThe act or process of educating oneself by one's own efforts.
The directors of the company encouraged this movement for self-education by granting the use of a small cottage which stood at the rear of the present building.
1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149
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Translations
Spanish autoeducación
- autoeducaciónTranslations
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