self-direction

“If you’ve seen one self-direction program, you’ve seen one self-direction program,” said Mary Morris, co-founder of the Self-Direction Center.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

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

The assumption was that insider artists rationally decide what they are going to do and do it, while outsiders, incapable of self-direction, produce like automatons, compulsively.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2014

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

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver