Sentences with phrase «civic virtue»

The result is that there is a real understanding of civic virtues in all academy students.

However, there is no agreement on how to explain the simple correlation between civic virtue and educational attainment.

It's a way to talk about promoting civic virtues and mutual understanding.

However, liberal and conservative civic educators can not agree on proper civic virtues, turning our public schools into just another front in the culture wars.

Their giving was a much - celebrated civic virtue.

As such, the institution of marriage is a foundation of a just political order and the nursery of civic virtue, as spouses exercise mutual responsibility for raising their children.

Amongst these are the emphasis on popular participation in politics, the importance of civic virtue in citizens, the promotion of the common good over private interests, and a particular conception of freedom as the absence of arbitrary power.

Trying to decide which civic virtues to teach in schools is like trying to decide which sports or which crafts to teach: since none of these is intrinsically related to academic education, there are no academic grounds for deciding these matters.

But our civic educators are not content with these modest contributions to the practice of American citizenship; they insist that public schools must attempt to teach the proper moral attitudes required for civic virtue.

To do so means challenging the theory that republicanism, with its seeming dependence on civic virtue, is incompatible with our modern world of competition and commerce.

Second, because only in small, culturally homogeneous populations could the affective basis for republican citizenship — i.e. the strong sense of civic virtue required to re-orient private to public interest — be sustained.

Indeed, there may be something paradoxical and self - defeating about the whole project of teaching civic virtue in schools.

Such activity fosters civic virtue and «habits of the heart» and encourages everyday citizens to take on necessary social tasks that in pre-modern society lowly subjects were not allowed to undertake, but were instead the duty of the aristocracy.

If civic virtue and a shared commitment to the common good are primary objects of schooling, a strong case can be made that school choice helps, not hinders, that mission

In a column for the Washington Post, Jay Mathews challenges the view that the renewed interest in governing caused by the election might lead to better teaching and greater civic virtue.

There was something of the republican ideal of civic virtue expressed in that conversation on Valdimontone's hilltop perch — a glimpse of a level of Italian political functioning that rarely comes across in news media obsessed with the theatrics of Berlusconi - era national politics.

I imagine that the practitioners of the old civic virtue of euergesia thought the same thing.

Cultures in which individuals feel no responsibility, and will take no risk, for good government lack what we call civic virtue.

If Machiavelli seems a decent guide to Christian politics, it is only because Americans are uniquely tempted by the liberal civil religion he touted — a backward, Hobbesian monster of a thing, wherein civic virtue shapes Christian practice instead of vice versa, trading eternal things for temporal ones.

We ought not to despise such civic virtue.

This person is not capable of cultivating or even exercising civic virtue because this dependence on another party subjects him or her to an alien regime — alieni iuris — thus making of him or her, to all intents and purposes, an «alien».

Additionally, classical and neo-republicans share the central claim that the achievement of freedom and the stability of republican laws and institutions depend on widespread civic virtue on the part of the citizenry.

Yes, luxury weakened civic virtue, but it also created economic demand and fuelled economic growth.

This type of civic virtue combined a disinterested concern for others with calculations of private welfare.

SCHROON LAKE — A popular fraternal organization has formed a farm team designed to install civic virtues in the next generation of tomorrow's leaders.

The chief civic virtues are probity and circumspection.

It seems to me demonstrably false (others can debate whether it's dangerous) to suggest that traditional public schools have special powers to advance and defend civic virtue.

Nevertheless, it is precisely the attempt to teach full civic virtue that has consistently proved to be both ineffective and subversive of genuine academic schooling.

Yet if civic schooling attempts to inculcate civic virtue, it can lead to the subordination of knowledge to civic uplift.

In any presidential election year, the months before the election afford middle and high school teachers a great opportunity to engage students in the new The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (C3s) These new frameworks center on guiding students in activities so that they can see how citizens apply civic virtues and democratic principles and have the opportunity to see actual civic engagement in the democratic process.

Through Character Education, a concerted program of teaching and modeling civic virtue and moral character in our youth for a more compassionate and responsible society.

Once we see that the conscientious pursuit of knowledge is the inherent moral purpose of schooling, we will not be surprised by the absence of any agreement about which civic virtues ought to be taught in schools.

And finally there's the claim that religion, though slow to achieve this, is moving inexorably in the same post-metaphysical direction: away from being a contributor to the ordering of the public sphere, and toward being a private comfort that may foster civic virtue.

We owe to God both a public service and a private one; one can not slip a knife between civic virtues and the life of devotion and say that one is pleasing to God and the other is not.

We also know that they can promote civic virtues, that the U.S. Supreme Court found voucher programs constitutional, that they can be held accountable, that district reform has not led to the improvements needed, and that chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats yet.

If civic virtue and a shared commitment to the common good are primary objects of schooling — and I agree that they should be — a strong case can be made that school choice helps, not hinders that mission.

Mathews rejects the idea that «the renewed interest in governing caused by the election might lead to better teaching» and and greater civic virtue.

Moreover, even if we could all agree about the proper civic virtues, the very attempt to inculcate them undermines the integrity of the academic curriculum.

Governments based on civic virtue have scarcely ever existed — because they simply don't work.

They insist that democracy and civic virtue require anticlericalism, and they are not embarrassed to approach endorsement of hatred for priests and their doings, as well as for the magisterial teaching of the Church.

But here we become impaled on the fundamental dilemma of civic education: if we teach civic virtue in a way that respects the integrity of the academic curriculum, civics becomes ancillary and irrelevant; but if we attempt to incorporate civic education into the academic subjects, we inevitably subvert the inherent moral aim of those subjects by subordinating the pursuit of truth to civic uplift.

Though based on events that took place 46 years ago, it's a celebration of civic virtues in need of touting now — a free and feisty press, an independent judiciary, and a woman who finds her voice and purpose in a world ruled by men.

Augustine was formed in this same world, and he begins his response by appealing to the Roman understanding of civic virtue as presented by Cicero in his treatise De Re Publica, a work both he and Volusian knew well.