Sentences with phrase «certain kind of education»

It took social scientists, for instance, to understand that parents in countries where girls are denied an education were not opposed to educating their daughters in principle, but very often simply wanted a certain kind of education — namely, one which is set within a religious context — for their daughters, and if that wasn't available (which it usually wasn't), they would choose no education at all as the lesser of two perceived evils.

But I've a certain kind of education, not just in football but in life, and I prefer to laugh.

Not exact matches

The younger writers are so self - conscious, so steeped in a certain kind of liberal education, that their characters can't condone even their own sexual impulses; they are, in short, too cool for sex.

There are certain key jobs that should be sought: teaching in schools of education, serving as organizers in unions, as lawyers and doctors for the poor, as clergy in various kinds of churches, as city planners, as journalists.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

The Department of Education introduced the funding formula almost a decade ago to dole out resources not simply based on a school's student body size, but also accounting for extra resources needed to support certain kinds of students, like English language learners and students with special needs.

Second, the rather long period of time in the international limelight has created certain complacency; there is a reluctance to anticipate future trends and inability to envision what kind of education system we need in the future.

And one thing is certain: poverty's connection to education is largely in the eye of the beholder and that eye is often shielded by some kind of rose - tinted (or magic mirror) glass.

Causality in the Classroom US News & World Report, August 24, 2012» «We walk around and see certain kinds of patterns and relationships, but our attention is constrained in each of these instances,» says Tina Grotzer, associate professor of education at Harvard's graduate school of education and director of the Understandings of Consequence Project.»

That law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, says that in order to get certain kinds of federal education funding, states must test their students every year in grades three through eight and once in high school.

In a democratic society people are free to be as conservative or liberal as their intelligence and conscience lead, but institutions built to nurture and sustain such a society are not, nor are their programs.Whether we wish to admit it or not, every education system tries to produce a certain kind of human being, attempts to develop in people dispositions to think, feel, and act in certain ways.

In the competitive, market - based view of public education, schools compete by promoting a brand that will appeal to certain kinds of students.

If certain proposals to control homeschooling families were to be fair and not an unwarranted profiling of those who choose home education rather than public or private schooling, then the same kinds of mandated home visits by government - approved agents would need to be imposed on all families with children of all ages and on all public and private school personnel.

Ofsted's national director of education, Sean Harford, has even said the inspectorate would research the link between certain kinds of curriculum and social mobility, and use any findings when inspecting the curriculums schools choose for their pupils.

(1999) The Council of Chief State School Officers states that «character education holds that certain core values form the basis of «good character,» i.e., the kinds of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that the school wants from, and is therefore committed to teach to, its children.»

You have been upfront about your belief that more choice will put pressure on schools to improve and adapt, in large part because of parents» demand for certain kinds of schools in an education marketplace.

«We were simply operating within the already given theme of «Made in Los Angeles» — to take that at face value and to understand that within that, that announces a certain kind of heterogenic activity in the locale,» said Walker, director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society, a contemporary art museum in Chicago.

They have a way of thinking that gives them a certain kind of confidence to tackle problems that other forms of education may not foster.»

We could continue to offer purely academic law degrees, acknowledging their worth in the imparting of a certain kind of learning, but insist that anyone who actually wants to practise law undergo an apprenticeship, getting the bulk of his or her education from an experienced professional — or ideally, professionals, moving around during the apprenticeship period through a minimum of three practice areas, much like a medical resident would.