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AUTHOR
BIO
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Author and publisher Charles D. Hayes is a self-taught philosopher
and an impassioned advocate for lifelong learning. At age 17, he
dropped out of high school to join the U.S. Marines. After four
years of duty, he became a police officer in Dallas, Texas, and
later he moved to Alaska, where he has worked for more than 35 years
in the oil industry. In 1987, Hayes founded Autodidactic Press,
“committed to lifelong learning as the lifeblood of democracy and
the key to living life to its fullest.”
Hayes’ first book,
Self-University, won PMA’s Benjamin Franklin Award for nonfiction
in 1990 and was called the best book on self-education of the decade
by educator Ronald Gross. Early in the year 2000, his book
Beyond the American Dream:
Lifelong Learning and the Search for Meaning in a Postmodern World
was selected by the American Library Association’s
Choice magazine as one of the most outstanding academic books of the
previous year. His other books include
Existential Aspirations:
Reflections of a Self-Taught Philosopher;
September University: Summoning Passion for an Unfinished Life;
The Rapture of Maturity: A
Legacy of Lifelong Learning;
Training Yourself; and
Proving You’re Qualified. His recent novel,
Portals in a Northern Sky,
has readers across the country declaring they are going to read or
reread classic literature.
Promoting the idea that education should be thought of not as
something you get but as something you take, Hayes’ work has appeared
in USA Today,
Library Journal,
Training magazine, Training
and Development magazine, in the
UTNE Reader, on Alaska
Public Radio's Talk of Alaska,
and on
National Public Radio’s
Talk of the Nation.
Hayes’ books have been featured by hundreds of radio stations and
newspapers and reviewed in The Bloomsbury Review, Midwest
Book Review, Skeptical
Inquirer, Across the Board,
Adult Learning, The Brain/Mind
Bulletin, Growing Without
Schooling, Life Learning,
Home Education,
Latina, NAPRA Review,
Publishers Weekly,
Training Zone, Tech Directions,
and The Wall Street Business
Weekly, among others. He was a contributing writer for
Creating Learning Communities,
published by the Foundation for Educational Renewal.
In 1989, Hayes inaugurated Self-University Week, held annually during
the first seven days of September to celebrate the joy of lifelong
learning. Since then, his web site Autodidactic.com has continued to
provide resources for self-directed learners—from advice about
credentials to philosophy about the value lifelong learning brings to
everyday living. In September 2004, Hayes initiated September
University.com, a web site created specifically for aging baby
boomers.
Contact the author at
Charles@autodidactic.com
http://www.autodidactic.com/
http://www.septemberuniversity.org/
http://self-university.blogspot.com/
http://septemberuniversity.blogspot.com/
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