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Joan Miro: "The Sun Eater" View Registry “THEAUTODIDACT PROJECT” byRalph Dumain (Librarian-Archivist-InformationSpecialistResearcher-Scholar) Areyou an autodidact, a self-educated person? Didyou learn most of what matters to you on your own, even if you went tocollege? Areyou a disgruntled student, teacher, or professor, dissatisfied with theknowledge industry and the bureaucratization of intellect? Areyou concerned about the role of the intellect not just as a form ofspecialized professionalism but as equipment for living? Areyou interested in the intellectual life of society as a whole, in itsinformal and extra-institutional aspects as much as in its formalinstitutions? Doyou strive to make yourself and people around you more conscious andcritical thinkers? How do you locateyourself in the universe of knowledge? Ifany of these questions strike a chord in you, you too may wish tobenefit from the Autodidact Project. “Naturehas no outline but imagination has.”— William Blake Note: Inclusion of material by other authors on this web site for purposes of study, research, and documentation does not imply endorsement of their viewpoints on the part of the site owner. Some of my own writings may no longer reflect my current viewpoint. Dates: Written out, usually in European format, e.g. 5 October 2019; numerically, United States format, e.g. 10/5/19. 20th anniversary of The Autodidact Project (12 August 2019) At http://www.autodidactproject.org since 21 February 2002 Site created 12 August 1999 at http://home.thirdage.com/education/ralphdavid Site reorganized 18 June 2000 Site passed the 1 megabyte mark 9 October 2000 Home page redesigned 18 January 2001 Site map redesigned 19 May 2001 Site passed 2 megabyte mark 21 June 2001 Site passed 3 megabyte mark 15 December 2001 Home page redesigned 29 December 2001 Site moved to present location 21 February 2002 Home page redesigned 21-23 February 2002 Home page augmented on 7 August 2002 Site is over 4.8 megabyte on 7 August 2002 Site is above the 5.2 megabyte mark on 19 November 2002 Site size circa 6.7 megabytes on 21 February 2003 Site size circa 8.7 megabytes on 2 January 2004 Site size circa 11.8 megabytes on 8 November 2004 Site size circa 15.6 megabytes on 10 August 2005 6th anniversary of web site 12 August 2005 Site size circa 16.26 megabytes on 3 January 2006 Site size 24.9 megabytes on 10 June 2006 New buttons added 16 July 2006 R. Dumain contact address changed 26 October 2007 Site size 37.1 megabytes on 1 January 2008 ThirdAge homepages discontinued on 1 August 2008 Disclaimer added 5 January 2009 10th anniversary of this web site: 12 August 2009 Background color & formatting changed on 19 February 2014 2nd disclaimer added 1 January 2016 20th anniversary of this web site: 12 August 2019 Note added 5 October 2019 06644 visitors at http://home.thirdage.com/education/ralphdavid 12 August 1999 - 6 January 2008 © 1999-2022 Ralph Dumain