self-directed


adjective
  1. (of study, learning, etc) regulated or conducted by oneself

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How to use self-directed in a sentence

  • The energy which issues in growth, or assimilates knowledge, must originate in self and be self-directed.

    How to Succeed | Orison Swett Marden
  • They were not organized, self-directed, self-controlled personalities in the way that Miriam Finch was.

    The "Genius" | Theodore Dreiser
  • He had gone self-directed, or, rather, in the blind manner of an object obeying the law of gravity.

    Cytherea | Joseph Hergesheimer
  • At college his industry was still of the same vagrant self-directed description that it had hitherto been.

  • Personality is founded upon self-consciousness, with self-governed intelligence and self-directed action.

    Supreme Personality | Delmer Eugene Croft