Sentences with phrase «by liberal education»

But that is how many liberals think; based on assumptions; put there by liberal education.

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The education measures have been promised by the Liberals as part of the benefits of restraints on wage and benefits for 9,600 unionized teachers.

Men respond to increases in the unemployment rates by shifting away from (in order of magnitude of the shift) education, liberal arts and history, literature and language, psychology and sociology.

Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

VERNON — Two letters written by Vernon education stakeholders expose the deception of the B.C. Liberal government and their failure to protect education, say New Democrats.

Today the B.C. Liberal government announced that education funding will be increased by a mere $ 44 per student next year.

So instead of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specEducation in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq speceducation to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specifically.

And if we are allowed to pursue our «liberal» studies undistracted by what does not belong to them, we may thank the survival of an ancient tradition of education for our good fortune.

1Gates is one of the authors whose essays are included in a collection edited by Darryl L. Gless and Barbara Hernstein Smith, The Politics of Liberal Education (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990).

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

If Scully's mentor and former partner, Red Barber, was the soft - spoken, southern - accented master of the homely analogy — «This game is tighter than a new pair of shoes on a rainy day» — Scully brings to his work the perspective of a philosopher at ease with the human condition, perhaps first formed by the liberal arts education he received at Fordham University shortly after World War II: «Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day - to - day.

The conclusions drawn by Bruce A. Kimball in Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (Teachers College Press, 292 pp., $ 19.95) are of a different kind.

Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even appears that a fundamental liberal education is the best vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.

Were Kimball's analysis to inform every discussion of the goals and strategies of liberal education, the ideas and goals advanced by Boyer and Bok, and possibly even those by Bloom, would more readily be fulfilled.

And classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult for them to have a passionate relationship to the art and thought that are the substance of liberal education» (p. 79).

With the general emancipation effected by technology, liberal education has become a democratic possibility.

By demonstrating how accommodations have been reached between contrasting traditions in liberal education, Kimball compels his readers to rethink their understandings.

If modern liberal education is to provide for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional liberal arts, but it must do so without sacrificing the variety and scope made possible by modern advances in knowledge.

His College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (Harper & Row, 328 pp., $ 19.95), a report sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, describes the dusky condition of liberal education in recent years, but he writes with the hope of a sunrise in mind.

By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a liberal - arts education: moral formation for civic life.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

Of course, a liberal arts approach to education underpinned by such a grand narrative is not the only possibility for Catholic educators.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

The liberal optimism, which largely had abandoned the concept of sin and believed that the world could be put right by education and social and economic reform, was challenged by Karl Barth, Emil Brunner (1889 - 1966) and other continental European theologians.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

Predestined to enter the civil service at the earliest opportunity, Wilhelm was given a careful education by liberal - minded teachers.

Nord would accomplish his goal through special courses and by persuading, even forcing, educators to acknowledge religion as an integral part of liberal education.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to create men and women who are truly and fundamentally free — not enslaved by their passions or their pride.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univEducation and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univEducation and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univeducation, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

In her years of teaching she developed a concept of education that she expressed as «liberal education for all,» by which she meant an education that was broad and deep enough curriculum to be suitable for all children.

In a strongly worded letter, Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has accused officials at the Department for Education, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of breaking the Coalition Agreement, by intervening in a High Court case over inclusive admissions in religious schools.

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The key issues include tax; nuclear power; the living wage (vociferously opposed by economic Liberals, who dispute the Resolution Foundation's work to demonstrate the economic benefits and savings to the exchequer); Trident replacement; and higher education where the party may struggle to avoid reopening the self - inflicted wounds of late 2010.

The education secretary offered an almost Shakespearian assessment of his fellow Cabinet minister as the Liberal Democrats continued to consolidate their position in the Eastleigh by - election.

It supported Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrats (HSLD) in their efforts to draft the motion, and the BHA's Director of Public Affairs and Policy spoke in favour of the motion at a fringe event organised by HSLD and the Liberal Democrat Education Association on Friday.

This is partly because they've reduced the education budget as far as they can by introducing nursing bursaries, which both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have promised to reinstate.

The president told Cuomo that the rapidly rising cost of a college education has been fueled both by liberals who haven't demanded that colleges control costs, and conservatives who downplay the burden placed on students.

Funding for the new teachers comes from the # 36m fund to reduce infant class sizes set up by Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams.

Today sees the launch of the National Academy for Educational Leadership — a key Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto commitment being delivered by Education Secretary Kirsty Williams.

Schools are to receive # 14 million for small scale repairs and maintenance under plans announced by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams.

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat AM for North Wales and the party's Spokesperson on Education, is today calling on the Welsh Government to provide certainty to schools in Wales by confirming how long it will continue to fund the Pupil Deprivation Grant.

Pupils across Wales are set to benefit from a new # 2.5 million Welsh Government small and rural schools grant announced today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have today welcomed the announcement made by Welsh Lib Dem Education Secretary Kirsty Williams that schools will receive extra investment and support to support mental health services.

Wales» brightest and most talented pupils are set to benefit from # 3 million of support over two years as part of plans announced today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary, Kirsty Williams.

A new network which aims to improve the teaching and learning of the Foundation Phase across all schools and education settings in Wales was launched today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty education settings in Wales was launched today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Education Secretary Kirsty Williams.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrat policy sets out a new liberal vision for higher education that builds on the core principles that access to higher education should be determined by academic ability and not social backLiberal Democrat policy sets out a new liberal vision for higher education that builds on the core principles that access to higher education should be determined by academic ability and not social backliberal vision for higher education that builds on the core principles that access to higher education should be determined by academic ability and not social background.

«Given the devastating impact the Tory education policies, which are supported by the Liberal Democrats, will have on state education, the leader should have the confidence to face up to the profession and argue the case.»

Linking both the DREAM Act — a measure supported by liberals in the Legislature — with the education tax credit has been floated in the Capitol in recent budget negotiations, but lawmakers have insisted the two should be kept as separate issues.