Adversarian is a blog dedicated to autodidacts. It’s about putting passion and curiosity back into learning, about exploring natural learning and about questioning the boundaries of today’s traditional education. It’s about living life without school, and living well without it!

What is autodidacticism?

Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. An autodidact is a mostly self-taught person, as opposed to learning in a school setting or from a full-time tutor or mentor. – Wikipedia

Autodidactism is hard to sum up in a tidy definition. While what Wikipedia says is true, it’s so much more than that. It’s about not being afraid to ask questions, not fearing failure, and not limiting yourself to the expectations of someone else. Being an autodidact means being yourself.

For an easy place to start check out these articles here on Adversarian:

• Self-Ed 101: Deschooling – The first step toward unschooling (which is a different term for autodidactism) is deschooling. This is a good article to start with if you’re new to the concept of self-led learning.
• Empowered Learning: Unschoolers Are In Charge of Their Education – It doesn’t matter if you’re an adult or a seven-year-old, self-led learning is empowering. If you think unschooling/autodidactism looks like a way to be lazy, you should read this.

Who’s behind Adversarian?

I’m Anna and I’m an autodidact. I love to write. My current studies focus on literature, linguistics, cognitive science, photography, psychology, philosophy, ancient civilizations, Finnish, and anything else that perks my curiosity. I live in Finland.

Making mistakes and enjoying life to the fullest are my biggest passions. I’m a firm believer that the two are inseparable!

You can find me on Twitter.