Sentences with phrase «better citizens»

They help young people become better students, better decision makers, and better citizens.

This, in turn, will help our communities by creating better citizens and fully utilizing the talents gifted individuals have.

Or go back to 1930 to Eleanor Roosevelt's speech in Hyde Park when she called for an improvement in education to build better citizens.

Given where we are, however, we need to train our elite to be better citizens.

Integration allows schools to fulfill a civic mission, seeking to teach students not only reading, writing, and arithmetic, but also how to be better citizens.

«The core values of honesty, kindness, and respect not only create better students, they create better citizens in the long run.»

There is growing evidence that arts education improves student learning and thereby produces better citizens.

And one can certainly make the case that teaching students habits of respect, self - discipline, perseverance, and delayed gratification — whatever the justification — will make them better citizens.

Each page can include another step to follow that helps readers become better citizens of the world.

A dark, disturbing motion picture that will have you questioning whether or not penal systems truly make for better citizens or if they merely turn men into monsters and madmen.

And we'll have young people who grow up to be better citizens and will be better prepared for the workforce of the 21st century.»

We need to form better citizens and a more qualified, competitive, and entrepreneurial workforce.

[citation needed] He wrote «Early Intervention, good parents, great kids, better citizens» with Iain Duncan Smith in 2009.

Actually their positions in society may well have led them to be better citizens not worse as their higher visibility made any mistakes more likely to be noticed..

A recent report from a blue - ribbon panel, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons, suggests sweeping changes to reduce violence behind bars and improve health care so that when prisoners are released — 600,000 each year — they will be better citizens.

Rorty does take a stand on a current educational issue when he supports efforts to promote literacy in a democracy so that the electorate can understand the issues of the day and become better citizens.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

A short description of all religions: A fictional narrative intended to help people avoid dealing with some of the harsh realities of life and encourage them to be better citizens and members of the society in which they live.

In short, property ownership makes better citizens.

Barack Obama claims reading fiction made him a better citizen.

S. called it «deplorable» that «good citizens,» soldiers willing to die for their country, had to endure the status of «pariahs.»

They instead emphasized what good citizens they were.

«Truthfully, I've been doing that for at least the last 30 years as a private citizen because I believe joining the conversation is part of being a good citizen.

So I think everyone in the company wants to say I like this place, it does good things, it's a good citizen where we do business.

There are a few huge benefits to being on relevant online forums: you gain the customer insight you need by acting as a good citizen and promoting your content at the same time.

All our companies, you can't go do business in a country if the country doesn't think that they're going to be better off having JP Morgan there, and that we're not a good citizen there, we're not bringing value there, it's not going to work.

PK I've always believed — even from lecture one in business school — that good businesses are good citizens, so we've always contributed a significant part of our income to philanthropic causes.

Both residents and state media blasted it for its seemingly unfair and arbitrary criteria, with one state - run newspaper comparing the system to the «good citizen» certificates issued by Japan during its wartime occupation of China.

If corporations can be people, can they be good citizens?

Clark and her government are totally manipulative as they dispense spin to a seemingly gullible public on how great they are for the environment - the current carbon tax of $ 30 a ton has remained frozen for years and recently they have approved a huge LNG project and will no doubt OK the Kinder Morgan pipeline - and there is pretty good chance the good citizens of this province will eat up all the propaganda and vote them back in!

They do a very good job of educating troubled young people to be good citizens, and they're probably more successful than charter schools.»

It's not only global temperatures that are rising though, the good citizens of Highwood are split and tempers are flaring.

I do not want to keep you waiting for Richard's answer: Atheists can be citizens, but they can not be good citizens.

Yes, I think Tim Cook will be conforming to the agenda of guiding a tech company powerhouse, being a good citizen that pays his taxes, watching over his employees with fairness and impartiality, and ensuring the inventive community spirit of Apple continues.

They can not be good citizens because good citizens are able to give a compelling account in defense of the regime of which they are part.

The rise of young, attractive, articulate porn starlets who are obscenely corrupt and also perfectly «good citizens» — role models, inspirations, heroes, everyday people — can no longer be dismissed as absurd:

There is this idea that these people are not really good citizens of the country,» said Albert W. Hickman, a research associate at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.

The majority of good citizens need to band together in greaat numbers and clean up there neighborhood.

I follow the law as any good citizen should.

People don't really know their neighbors and reputation offers far less incentive to be a good citizen.

I work hard, pay my taxes, give to charity, do my best to be a good citizen.

It is easier to churn out good citizens as opposed to faithful disciples.

Personally, I wouldn't forego an opprotunity to make things better in my community, by being involved as a good citizen to whatever extent my conscience and my resources would allow.

Though they were willing for all good citizens to have a hand in electing those who were responsible for government, they too insisted that only church members could be in actual positions of authority.

His father, a faithful church member and a good citizen and a hard worker, could not understand his son's passion for God's kingdom.

But I do find myself profoundly grateful for the people of God and the countless good citizens who choose to be with us and with my hometown in the middle of the storm.

It's no way to be a good citizen and certainly no way to advance the gospel in the world.

«I wonder if Jesus isn't saying something a bit more subversive than «be a good citizen,»» suggested a Jewish participant.

We are good citizens, pay our taxes, fight and die in our wars.

Or I may try to change the mind of a believer that thinks they are more moral, bound for a better afterlife or a better citizen because of their beliefs.