Self-Education Resources For Autodidacts

Abigail Adams. Clearly one of the most literate Americans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, wife of the second president of the United States and mother of the sixth, Abigail Adams never attended school. She was tutored by her maternal grandmother and encouraged to read. Her letter correspondence with her husband, John Adams, chronicles an important part of American history and stands out as unambiguous testimony to the power and development of intellect that can be achieved simply by desiring to do so.

Andrew Carnegie. An icon of the era of American industrialization and at one time the richest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie said "no man becomes rich unless he enriches others." He received his education not through school but through work and became one of the world's greatest philanthropists.

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