Sentences with phrase «citizen of a democracy»

Home is where we learn the fundamentals for becoming citizens of a democracy.

A society that uses all of its resources effectively to provide an equal opportunity for all children and youth to learn, develop, and become contributing citizens of our democracy.

As citizens of a democracy fuelled by economic growth and a free market, Canadians are turning to legal remedies in unprecedented numbers to undo the unfair or unforeseen outcomes life in Canada sometimes entails.

And when our rights and citizens of a democracy conflict with our responsibilities as citizens of heaven, we must choose to abandon our rights, and live for what is right.

«If we wish to train good citizens of democracy it is essential that one of the conscious and deliberate aims of their teachers should be to interest their pupils in the affairs of the modern world and so to train them that they will later develop a power of wise social judgement.»

It looks like many citizens of democracies around the world are under debt.

When asked, parents want schools to do four things to help their children prepare to succeed in college and their careers: improve their knowledge and critical - thinking abilities; provide them with a safe learning environment; educate them about their rights and responsibilities as citizens of a democracy; and address their social, emotional and health needs.

Sure, it can be a dirty business, but to disengage is to abdicate the stewardship we have as citizens of a democracy.

Why, to keep us humble, to keep us mindful that we are not a better people than God's other children but are beyond any measure luckier, and perhaps above all to instruct the citizens of a democracy where beyond state and government and policy - making the true transcendence that every one of us at least sometimes looks for is to be found.

As someone raised largely in the US, it would seem through my rose - colored glasses that revolution is a basic right of the citizens of any democracy.

I believe, as do most people, that citizens of a democracy have a responsibility to remain informed, but I fear this constant deluge of information has overwhelmed our ability to process it well.

The freedom of school choice is parallel to the freedom we experience as citizens of a democracy; while we may not agree with those who make choices different than our own, we need to respect their right to make that choice.

In our definitions of success for our students and graduates, we need to explore what it means to be a citizen of a democracy and a global world.

In «Failing Liberty 101» (p. 22), William Damon calls U.S. educators to take up their historic responsibility to prepare students for their role as citizens of a democracy.

It seems to me that any journalist worth her notepad allows no one to dictate to her, but that no citizens of any democracy (or republic) worth the paper its constitution is written on refrain in any topic area from criticizing — not dictating to, but criticizing — journalism.

It's time to take account of our carbon budgets and make the citizens of this democracy aware of them on a regular basis.