He feels himself a self-directing power, and at times asserts this power against the will of those who would make him do what he does not want to do.

They pass a bird in flight; and with such unerring certainty they make to their destination, that some have said that they have no need of pilot or rudder, but that they move instinctively, self-directed, and know the minds of their voyagers.

Our task is to train responsible, self-directing agents, not to make soldiers.

2. The attempt to make so-called "moral culture" a little less immoral; the rational method of discipline, looking to the growth of moral, self-directing power in the child,the only proper discipline for future citizens of a free republic.

Education for democracy means the development of each individual to the most intelligent, self-directed and governed, unselfish and devoted, sane, balanced and effective humanity.

Just as that fruition will see the end of idle rich and poor, so there will be no more women slaves or parasites, none regarded or possessed as property, but only free human beings, each self-directed and self-controlled, and responsible for his or her own personality and conduct.

The main body of the free negroes were those who whether in person or through their mothers had been liberated purely from sentiment and possessed no particular qualifications for self-directed careers.

The island needed a radically new governmental activityan activity that would develop each citizen into a self-respecting and self-directing force in the island's uplift.

As such an arrogant official, from yet unsealed Oxford heights, thus paternally looked down over Boston and New England, he could see in the little self-directing communities that clustered about the village church and the public school but a race of nobodies.

In each case an independent, self-directing, expanding state was built around an urban center.

The last words were murmured rather than spokenalmost self-directed.