Word: autodidact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kubrick is a self-taught man with an autodidact's passion for facts and the process of gathering them. Son of a Bronx physician, he was an indifferent high school student. He experimented endlessly with cameras and at 17 was hired by Look as a staff photographer. He learned something about people and a lot about photography, traveling the country shooting pictures for 4% years. At 21, he made his first short subject, three years later his first fictional feature-very low budget. He also audited Columbia University courses conducted by the likes of Lionel Trilling and Mark...
...debate. Reared in a vigorously intellectual home in Baltimore, he graduated from Exeter and Harvard, studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at the London School of Economics. He never earned a doctoral degree and, as a result, he says, "I have all the vices of an autodidact: thinking you can make sense of more of the world than most scholars think...