Sentences with phrase «ideal than a reality»

This New Public Management, imported largely from the corporate sector without sufficient critique, has pulled professionals further away from the democratic mission of a public education — a mission that has been more an ideal than a reality in the history of public schooling.

Often they answer more as an ideal than a reality.

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Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion of personal identity sketched in (ii), is perhaps better viewed as a regulative principle guiding philosophical reflection than as a philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate in the present.

If talk about God is to express more than intellectually satisfying constructions, abstract ideals, and hopes, theologians will have to show in fact that Hartshorne is wrong when he says that «our knowledge of the concrete divine reality is negligibly small» (NTT 77).

The problem facing the religionist is deeper than the struggle between the ideal of neutrality and the reality of accommodation.

«88 Niebuhr reaffirmed his «pessimistic faith» in the democratic idea, but he concluded that democracies in the emerging third world will remain an ideal more often than an operative reality.

Instead of seeing moral obligations simply as individual and social ideals externally related to the factual order of life and physical reality, I began to see them as demands on human life no less intrinsically real than gravitation.

Thus community is championed more in theory than in reality, more as an ideal of liberal universalism than as the diverse relational structures that impose themselves upon us in everyday life.

In order to create an atmosphere of flexibility and welcome, he speaks of marriage as an «ideal» rather than a sacramental reality.

The organic industry needs to review risk management policies and focus more on ensuring end organic products remain non-GM, rather than expecting zero GMO presence in the ambient farming environment — not ideal for those passionate about the anti-GM cause but a practical reality all of us face.

that was in reality the Platonic ideal of a block than I am about the cheating and whatnot.

How many women have been advised to or have even stopped vital medication because «breast is best», rather than the reality of «breast might be a little better in an ideal situation but certainly is not always best»?

However, any parents with children older than 3 years old would probably tell you that reality is very different from the ideal.

Every once in a while, and more often than not, you'll find an individual eying the ideal muscular physique, but never turning his fantasy into reality.

Only once in a while do looped lines by Professor Browne and shopkeeper Mrs. Hobday take you out from the film's reality, but that's still more than what an ideal presentation would.

While the tone of the film changes in the second portion (from dreamy ideals to stark realities), many sequences and shots still carry that slightly surreal aesthetic, which heightens the intrigue and beauty of this gritty working - class limbo; even more so than his other films, Mud showcases Nichols as a sharp and artistic visual storyteller.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

Of course, political realities make the world less than ideal, and it may take many years before performance - based licensure becomes a reality, if it ever does.

This ideal is easier said than done: for some sceptics the definition of «collaboration» would seem to be «the suppression of mutual loathing in pursuit of government funding», when faced with the reality of forced collaboration or reluctant leadership.

They can thus merely disregard contrary climate observations in the skeptic's lower «shadowy» Earthly world and skeptic's criticism based on lower «shadowy» Earthly logic; they can be discount across the board as less real and less logical than in their higher level «a priori» «ideal» reality and «a priori» «ideal» logic.

Equal access to justice has become more of a lofty ideal than a tangible reality.

Esther Perel, a couples therapist whose TED talk has had more than 5 million views, believes that it's time to challenge the mismatch between the romantic ideal and the changing realities of contemporary life.