Mere educational excellence can not be considered as the basic criterion to assess the worthiness of student because
the fundamental aim of education is to bring forth overall development.
Not exact matches
Liberal
education — in contrast to vocational
education, in the usual sense
of that term — is
fundamental in that it is concerned with the ends
of all living, toward which both labor and leisure are
aimed.
But he also highlights significant weaknesses, for example: «Argumentation to justify
fundamental Catholic and Christian positions on sex
education is lamentably absent» and, it invokes «secular rhetoric in explaining the
aim of understanding the Church's teaching on contraception and pregnancy as becoming «able to make informed choices»».
The AA Programs (3 years) offer vocational
education aiming for the
fundamental knowledge and skills in arts, while BFA degree programs offer professional
education to develop the
fundamental knowledge and skills to the professional level through 1 year
of intensive training and collaborative, circulatory, and integrated
education.
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.
Even as the state board
of education struggles to develop regulations governing the troubled Parent Trigger program, Assemblywoman Julia Brownley is preparing legislation
aimed at cleaning up its
fundamental flaws.
McDonald is also partnering with Reading is
Fundamental, a non-profit organization promoting the cause
of literacy and
education that
aims to make available no less than a 100,000 ebooks for kids to read throughout the US.
This early investment in the
fundamental building blocks
of healthy development — health,
education and strong parenting — is
aimed at shoring up the foundations
of the youngest members
of our community.