self-directed
Speech parts
1. self-directed - Adjective
2. self-directed - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
(of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
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Examples
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
Because responsibility or consequence for self-directed action lies partly outside the self, an element of externalization is involved.
Children will be taught how to write poetry and socialize appropriately, through the lenses of creative and free thinking, self-directed learning, and reading/writing comprehension.
In addition, in a sense, anti-psychiatry was not so much a demand for the end of psychiatry, as it was an often self-directed demand for psychiatrists and allied professionals to question their own judgements, assumptions and practices.
He also lived at Horton, Berkshire from 1635 and undertook six years of self-directed private study.
A leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning--"unschooling"--is the best way to get kids to learn.