self-direction

People would have to become much more capable of self-direction as well as of voluntary co-operation than they are now.

There is a great body of young men who float on the stream of life with no self-direction.

The desire for self-direction has made a thousand philosophies as contradictory as the temperaments of the thinkers.

Only by the exercise of self-guidance and intelligent self-direction can that inalienable, supreme, pivotal power be expressed.

Many teachers and parents insist upon guiding the pupil long after he is capable of self-direction.