Sentences with phrase «liberal education based»

Compiled and edited by Harvard University President, Charles W. Eliot, the goal of the publications was simple: provide a liberal education based on the number of books able to fit across a five - foot shelf (that he felt should be read from for 15 minutes per day).

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But that is how many liberals think; based on assumptions; put there by liberal education.

Liberal education should not be based upon a circumscribed canonical body of literature.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

Whereas a liberal arts education may provide some basis for viewing the global economy critically and making judgments as to how one wants to relate to it, very few students in universities are exposed to that kind of reflection.

This donation helps the school, which opened its doors in 1971, expand its Great Books — based liberal arts education.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univEducation and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univEducation and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several univeducation, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

It's a literature - based curriculum based on the traditional liberal education.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto recognised that economic growth depends on growing the skill base of the population, and proposed better links between education and industry.

Offering a problem - based «studium fundamentale» — a broad higher education including the humanities and natural sciences — the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) at Berlin has just opened its doors.

But education policy in Britain over the past fifteen years has jettisoned the ideals of liberal education, upon which Orr has based his proposals, replacing them with a system in which the student is merely a unit of input / output.

She is a graduate of a nationally accredited preparation program, where she received a rigorous liberal - arts education, studied research - based pedagogy, and worked with real students in real schools.

A few years ago, standards were being attacked by Christian conservatives fearful of the outcomes - based - education movement, which appeared to be succeeding in making a particular set of liberal expectations about attitudes and values the official approach.

Ultimately, these carefully analyzed data will form the basis for recommendations about how higher education in the liberal arts and sciences should be rethought and, as necessary, reinvented for the 21st century.

It's still possible at a fairly high level of abstraction to join moderate liberals and moderate conservatives around some key principles of education reform, much as the state - based reform groups joined under the loose umbrella of Policy Innovators in Education in their statement of «commitmenteducation reform, much as the state - based reform groups joined under the loose umbrella of Policy Innovators in Education in their statement of «commitmentEducation in their statement of «commitments.»

The term «knowledge» was chosen to reflect the trust's focus on providing pupils a «classical liberal education», which it describes as a «rigorous and extensive knowledge - based education».

In higher education, Olin College of Engineering, in western metro Boston, offers an «interdisciplinary, project - based approach emphasizing entrepreneurship, liberal arts, and rigorous science and engineering fundamentals.»

Concordia prides itself on providing students across disciplines with a well - rounded education grounded in faith - based, value - oriented liberal arts.

The analysis, done by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit liberal watchdog and advocacy agency based in Wisconsin that tracks corporate influence on public policy, says that four companies — Pearson Education, ETS (Educational Testing Service), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw - Hill — collectively spent more than $ 20 million lobbying in states and on Capitol Hill from 2009 to 2014.»

Bard College seeks to realize the best features of American liberal arts education, enabling individuals to think critically and act creatively based on a knowledge and understanding of human history, society and the arts.

Based in Black Mountain, North Carolina, the school was ideologically organized around John Dewey's principles of education, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts education.

Founded in 1933 by the classics scholar John Andrew Rice and the engineer Theodore Dreier, it was a progressive institution based in Black Mountain, a small North Carolina town that aimed to place art making at the heart of a liberal arts education.

The idea that people who hold personal, faith - based convictions that are contrary to liberal norms can not effectively teach the law, or approach education with an open and critical mind, is rooted in stereotype, not fact or logic.

Students need an intensive, required broad - based liberal arts education in the lawand NOT a concentration in one area of the law.

The counseling program provides a liberal arts education based on a Christian perspective that promotes respect for the diversity of each person as uniquely created by God.