self-directing
Example Sentences
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Thespian self-directing tends toward the blustery, for reasons that are easy to understand.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2012
Later disseminating becomes irrelevant considering rapidity of technological change.What is now needed is classroom activity designed to enhance and increase student self-directing consciousness.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2010
Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The aim of the teacher should be to develop a self-sustaining, self-directing, altruistic individual keenly alive to the interests of humanity.
From Adequate Preparation for the Teacher of Biological Sciences in Secondary Schools by McDonald, James Daley
Each rational person, and every self-directing social group seeks to get the largest possible return in the form of satisfaction for the time and the energy invested in any given enterprise.
From The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation by Nearing, Scott