self-direction
Example Sentences
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Rather, she has been largely tasked to do assignments and read slide decks — learning that is text-heavy and requires self-direction.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2020
The question implies that their “intent” is self-direction, which we would respect, but ignorance of the current best information hurts others—and license to hurt others is not allowed.
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2020
The coach of UCLA’s women’s gymnastics team built her extraordinarily successful career on encouraging self-direction and being 1% better each day at a form of expression that feeds your soul.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2018
They found that having a quiet ego was associated with self-transcendent values-- such as universalism and benevolence-- as well as self-direction and achievement.
From Scientific American • May 26, 2018
And these reflections lead us to remark on the common fallacy that strength of emotion means necessarily a lack of the moral direction of emotion, and that conversely moral self-direction argues weakness of emotional capacity.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
