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
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
But it has been my experience as an educator and general smart-ish person that even smart people are not nearly as good at self-direction as they think they are.
From Slate • Mar. 1, 2016
It implies a certain freedom, a self-direction, the faith that we know what's best for ourselves.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2014
In brief, love should increase, instead, like that which oftenest profanes love's name, of diminishing, the power of aspiration, of self-direction, of self-restraint, which may exist within us.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon
