Scott Beauchamp, TAC contributor: The strength of the autodidact is the same as any outsider, only amplified by passion: critical perspective. What the self-educated man lacks in polish, convention, ...

My connection to Mark E Smith will be forever framed by the infamous NME “summit meeting” interview that took place in the otherwise empty Montague Arms in south-east London in January 1989. There, my ...

I grew up appreciating the value of education. In part, this was via my Jewish upbringing, and in part, this was a family value (not sure how to differentiate the two). I completed university, medical ...

Sean Connery's memoir is surprising, not least because the actor emerges from its thoughtful pages as self-taught: how inspiring I had the misfortune to appear at the Edinburgh Festival of Books ...

Courses are often required, for example, for professional certification. But sometimes you can avoid courses, which are often costly, inconvenient, and larded with masses of material you’ll never use ...

Each week The Sun’s John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week’s word: ...