14.  Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below (Q.No.14-18)
I pray to you to make me learn. More than that, Teacher, teach me how I can learn to learn.
As you prepare me for the wide world in which I need to 'fend' for myself and for others, onetime learning will not be good enough. I will have to have the ability to learn newer and more difficult things. Some of it I will need to learn very quickly. In all this, what will become critical is the process of learning itself, more than just what I am able to learn. Help me to learn newer ways to learn. And that will make learning a joy for me.

Choose the correct meaning for the underlined word
I need to fend for myself.