Sentences with phrase «liberal education became»

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In the future, Sims predicts that companies like Codecademy, which teaches people how to code online, will become a more viable alternative to the traditional liberal arts education.

Since I became leader of the Liberal Party last spring, we have been talking about solutions to grow our economy and give Canadians a real and fair chance to succeed — infrastructure investment, access to post-secondary education, strengthening our trade relationships and innovation.

Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even appears that a fundamental liberal education is the best vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.

In fact, it has at length become evident that the content of a study is not what makes it «liberal» or otherwise, and that any subject of study can be included in a liberal education, provided it is treated in a liberal fashion.

With the general emancipation effected by technology, liberal education has become a democratic possibility.

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.

A liberal education, Freedman went on to say, «ought to make a person independent of mind, skeptical of authority and received views, prepared to forge an identity for himself or herself, and capable of becoming an individual not bent upon copying other persons — even persons as persuasive and influential as one's father.»

Training in divinity was no longer essential to those studies constituting a liberal education but had become the course of studies appropriate for those entering into a specific profession, the Christian ministry.

Whereas prior to World War II liberal arts colleges provided the model for higher education, and universities were liberal arts colleges with graduate and professional schools attached to them, now the heart of higher education became preparation for a job.

This attitude causes liberal education to be disregarded because it is «old,» even though it is a treasure of outstanding past thinking which has not become obsolete.

Funny, when I was young I was more conservative (though I didn't really know it), but my ideals became more politically liberal the more I saw of the larger world and the more education I achieved.

The King's College Athletic Training (AT) Program provides students with individualized, learning - centered athletic training education in the liberal arts tradition, which enables them to become confident, skilled, and principled Certified Athletic Trainers.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto recognised the need to support vocational education and invest in apprenticeships, as well as calling for public sector organisations becoming living wage employers.

Loeb has become a bete noir for liberal groups and the teachers unions for his pet concerns, especially the broadly encompassing issue of education reform.

Mr Williams was appointed to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee in 2005 before becoming the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Wales, and at varying times has been spokesman on schools and higher education.

In response to Huw Lewis» comments that «from tonight, cutting the link between deprivation and attainment becomes our first priority», Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Minister said:

Many liberal educators hold that the primary goal for education is for children to become autonomous, to develop fully who they are in the classroom setting without having arbitrary, outside standards forced upon them.

Great Hearts has grown to become a leader in public charter education by providing a Classical liberal arts curriculum.

Their questions ranged from how to make the most of a liberal arts education, to what services students need today, and what is the best way to become knowledgeable about education policy.

The liberal think tank that hired me focused on state issues, so I had nothing to do with the project that was consuming D.C. wonks at the time: a once - a-decade reauthorization of the mammoth federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would become the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

In examining the claim justifying a disproportionate ration of liberals to conservative, the claim being conservatives are less interested in becoming professors than liberal students because they seek out higher paying jobs where liberal students are more likely to seek out community or service oriented, of which they believe higher education to such a thing; the survey found, however, while conservative students were more likely to complain about the price of higher education they were just as likely to express an interest in higher education and it was liberal respondents who ranked salary more highly than conservatives.

I became aware of this lack of a scientific and technical education early on after he made some incoherent technical comments but apparently many here still do not know his liberal arts / marketing background.