As a natural philomath, being able to learn from such a wide variety of sources makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. |
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Every single one of my students is inherently a philomath but problems arise when what they love to learn is not what I want to teach! |
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A good role for a philomath is that of a doctor of philosophy, or any such individual that makes it seem right to love wisdom. |
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I describe myself, if I have to, as a philomath, someone who is a lover of learning. |
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The philomath had gained, through hours of long study, mastery in several disciplines. |
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Well, the doctor has the great advantage of being a sort of natural philomath, you see? |
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William spent many years as a philomath while continuing to earn a living teaching and playing music. |
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His father's a schoolmaster, a philomath, as one might say. |
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William Wales, meanwhile, was able to use his associations with the philomath community to prepare him sufficiently to land a job as assistant at the Royal Observatory. |
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However, the main point I’d like to state here is that you cannot be a polymath without first having been a philomath as every polymath was first a philomath. |
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The role of philomath culture in the education of British mathematicians in the eighteenth century is referred to in Andrew Warwick's book, titled Masters of Theory. |
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To to this, he drew on philomath culture, reading books and journals aimed at his audience, later joining his local philosophical society and finally becoming a fellow of the Royal Society. |
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