Sentences with phrase «education as a good thing»

I was kind of surprised at this because I always thought of saving for your kid's college education as a good thing, but it seems it's not for everyone.

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Space critics such as the CBC's Wendy Mesley and Now are usually opposed to the billions spent on agencies, largely because of their ties to the military - industrial complex and because they feel it's money that could be spent on better things, such as education or social programs.

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As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

The best single article I've seen on the moral case for parental choice in education is «School Choice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

Access to birth control and education on the proper uses (like, even if you're on birth control, the guy should still wear a condom) of it, as well as true education about intercourse, what causes disease and how giving birth affects the female body is one of the most responsible things we can help the poor with.

Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.

It seems to have been proved within out time that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, and holidays with pay — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.

AlanW - It might be about economics and education, however, Islam has an answer for those things as well.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

I have described this as a case of thinking things through about education, getting clear about what we hope to accomplish and how we might best go about it.

In spite of much that still needs to be done, we had better rejoice and be thankful, not only for more comfortable living with the vast range of things technology has produced, but for more recognition of race and sex equality and advances toward implementation of these principles; better education; better health; minimum wage, unemployment and social security provisions; and a large network of social agencies that we sometimes fume at as being bureaucratic and expensive but which few of us would want to see abolished.

The price of a Basha product pays for things like on - site day care, medical support, benefits such as an annual bonus & paid leave, ongoing education, as well as a fair wage to the woman to made it.

In one of the most important passages in the Education of Cyrus, Cambyses (Cyrus's father) gives Cyrus the following advice: «If someone deceives often, instilling the expectation of good things, such a person ends up not being able to persuade even when he speaks of true sources of hope... One must, as much as possible preserve trust in one's own encouragement in the face of the greatest risks.»

That's why not only is there generally no such thing as a good education, but we have no idea about how to obtain one for ourselves, much less impart one to our children.

The problems of sports specialization at too young an age, over training, playing through injuries, and a society that feeds off of «there is no such thing as enough» attitude can not be solved with better shoulder pads or education on hydration in hot weather.

And if you find that things aren't going as smoothly as planned, consider the option of a joint venture in your child's schooling — perhaps only temporary, perhaps lasting — to help your child receive the best education for him or her.

The difference with doing my LOVE YOUR BIRTH childbirth education course is that you are guided by a professional through your journey and are given the tools necessary for really preparing yourself for the unknowns of labor, childbirth and beyond as best that you can, and feel deeply positive about it - even embrace the unexpected, when things did not turn out as planned.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

There are lots of micro decisions to make along the way — what time in your life is best, balancing it against work and education and having a robust social life, and determining if it is the right thing for you as an individual and in your partnership.

«We also will focus on things that women care about, such as creating jobs for women and their families, funding education so their children get the best education possible,» Young said.

Taxpayers must have seen some benefits for funding a foreigner's education, as those are the same funds that could have been used to improve many other things within the country itself (better education, health, etc).

But first, realize that cutting education aid and SUNY and CUNY are not the best actions, as one of the things we can pride ourselves on is the state's educational infrastructure - as pitiful as it may now be.

Helping working families doing things like improving the minimum wage, fighting for women and the women's health and the ten point women's plan as well as helping to make sure children are a top priority, education is a top priority.

Warren plans to share some of the things that work in Rochester with other cities, and study other cities best practices in her new role as co-chair of the National League of Cities» Council on Youth, Education and Families.

There are certain things which must be done to help reverse this including accountability to make changes in lifestyle and provide support as well as education to learn how to eat, control stress and exercise the most effectively.

One of the things that most 50 + year old people like about the Elite Singles website is not only the huge database they have as well as most of their members have high education degrees.

They guarantee three things: highly educated, intelligent, exclusive community; pre-screened and verified education as well as customized privacy settings.

Note down the practical things about yourself — your likes and dislikes, your education level, your hobbies and your goals for example — as well as the emotional and spiritual — do you want children?

Nicely directed with great visual flair by Jean - Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club, C.R.A.Z.Y.), working from a well - honed script from veteran Nick Hornby (An Education, Fever Pitch), Wild is a solid, cathartic work that asks us, perhaps indirectly, to examine our own lives and the things we need to overcome, using Strayed's own example as an inspiration.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

As each child's response may be different, the best thing a teacher can do is talk with the child's special education teacher and speech therapist to know how to best respond when this occurs.

Thus, it can only be viewed as a great good thing that two dozen deans of education schools have come together under the banner of «Deans for Impact» and committed themselves to a common set of principles, including data - driven improvement, common outcome measures, empirical validation of teacher preparation methods, and accountability for student learning.

With a goal to have all students reading at or above grade level by the end of third grade, Arizona's Literacy Director Terri Clark seized the opportunity to utilize the 16 memos, sharing them with partners as well as the communities that signed on to work with Read On Arizona — a public - private partnership that includes the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, and other state - based foundations.

According to early reactors who have voted in the Education Next poll of the best and worst in 2010 for American education, «Waiting for Superman» and the other recently released documentaries rank next to the stimulus package as among the worst things that have happened tEducation Next poll of the best and worst in 2010 for American education, «Waiting for Superman» and the other recently released documentaries rank next to the stimulus package as among the worst things that have happened teducation, «Waiting for Superman» and the other recently released documentaries rank next to the stimulus package as among the worst things that have happened this year.

For better or worse, the Iowa test scores became «the one thing that everyone looked at,» according to DePaul University education professor Barbara Radner, director of DePaul's Center for Urban Education, even as the state haltingly developed its own standards and testineducation professor Barbara Radner, director of DePaul's Center for Urban Education, even as the state haltingly developed its own standards and testinEducation, even as the state haltingly developed its own standards and testing system.

Especially with Texas Governor Rick Perry now drawing attention as the newly installed favorite in the Republican presidential field, including some harsh words from the Secretary of Education, I thought it'd be a good time to chat with Scott about his take on things.

She writes about all things education, technology, and games (in her spare time, she plays plenty of games as well).

I suspected that what ailed education was as much about bureaucracy as pedagogy, and that many well - intended reforms actually made things worse.

«The best thing I can do is prepare the strongest generation of music teachers as they go off and teach in a program and create quality music education that advocates for the field,» Bernard says, noting that an outstanding music teacher can do terrific things for children, even those with autism.

Education news and opinion site The 74 ran a series of exclamatory columns asserting, «Trump's Ed Budget Masks Cuts as Flatlines and Makes Cuts That Devastate Kids,» and «How Trump's Budget Would Gut Innovations in Teacher Training — Just as Things Are Getting Better.»

When someone needs a doctor to save their child's life; or a lawyer to handle an important legal issue; or wants the products of good engineering, such as clean water to drink, town or city infrastructure that works, transportation that is reliable, or digital technologies that make life easier and more enjoyable, they rarely connect those things to higher education.

Richard W. Riley: Well, I have to say there are a lot of things that I am very proud of, but I think one big thing is that the American people now have education clearly as their top priority.

In At the Helm, which I co-wrote in 2014 with Juliet Squire, we argue that there are lots and lots of things handed to state departments of education (also known as state education agencies, or «SEAs») that could be better achieved elsewhere.

At an EWA webinar last summer, I was asked to name the best thing that could happen to restore civic education as a priority for U.S. schools.

«Intuitively, I had not expected this to be an important policy lever, but there are a lot of indicators that things are not going well for students in the middle school grades in the United States,» says West, who serves as executive editor of Education Next.

But, I've been involved in teacher education for a long time and it dawned on me very early in my career in teacher education, that taking people straight from school, training them as teachers and sending them back to school, often in the same area that they've come from, is not a good thing to do.

«If the aim of Education be correctly defined as being to give a knowledge of the best and noblest things done or said in the world, then Education must keep a place for the Classics or be untrue to itself.»

In the role as Head of Education, Dr Vazey will be tasked with talking to leaders of education, students and industry to discover what challenges need to be addressed and where things can be donEducation, Dr Vazey will be tasked with talking to leaders of education, students and industry to discover what challenges need to be addressed and where things can be doneducation, students and industry to discover what challenges need to be addressed and where things can be done better.

«The state of Connecticut has done a number of things and committed hundreds of millions of dollars to improving the quality of schools and education as well as providing more choices for Hartford students and their families,» Murphy said.