Sentences with phrase «liberal education in»

The Carnegie Effect: Elevating Practical Training over Liberal Education in Curricular Reform

Born of a family high in the imperial administration, Chrysostom enjoyed an extended liberal education in philosophy and rhetoric.

I am sure Pavlos Papadopoulos is right to emphasize the place of liberty and liberal education in his defence of the American institutions to which he refers.

His College: The Undergraduate Experience in America (Harper & Row, 328 pp., $ 19.95), a report sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, describes the dusky condition of liberal education in recent years, but he writes with the hope of a sunrise in mind.

At the present time much of what is called liberal education in the arts and sciences is organized as a collection of specialized studies.

Not exact matches

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.

However, there is increasing evidence that the STEM shortage is a myth and, as Fareed Zakaria points out in his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skillin his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skillIn Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skills.

Men respond to increases in the unemployment rates by shifting away from (in order of magnitude of the shift) education, liberal arts and history, literature and language, psychology and sociology.

The new Liberal government will face some serious challenges, especially in two issues little discussed in the campaign: education and environment.

B.C.'s renewed Liberal government faces so many unchanged challenges, but in particular a public education system that's still crying out for cash.

This past Sunday the liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, in an interview on CBC's French - language service Radio Canada, said that a Liberal government would give priority to infrastructure investment, education and research over tax liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, in an interview on CBC's French - language service Radio Canada, said that a Liberal government would give priority to infrastructure investment, education and research over tax Liberal government would give priority to infrastructure investment, education and research over tax relief.

«Since 2001, Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals have dragged public education funding in this province from the second best in Canada to the second worst.

80 per cent of new jobs in British Columbia will require some post-secondary education and under the B.C. Liberals, the province's apprenticeship program is a mess and tuition and debt for college and university students are at an all - time high.

«The B.C. Liberals have made it next to impossible for young British Columbians to access the training and education they need to apply for jobs in their own communities, and the results of this short sighted planning is an economic crisis among young people in this province,» said Eby.

The B.C. Liberals have had two MLAs assigned as spokespeople on advanced education, yet neither of them have asked a question on behalf of students in Question Period in 2017 or 2018.

VICTORIA — B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Michael de Jong must think people in B.C. have forgotten 16 years of B.C. Liberal neglect on housing, child care and education as he announces things he refused to deliver while he was the...

VICTORIA — B.C. Liberal leadership candidate Michael de Jong must think people in B.C. have forgotten 16 years of B.C. Liberal neglect on housing, child care and education as he announces things he refused to deliver while he was the minister of finance.

Routledge said «People in B.C. also won't forget the B.C. Liberal 16 - year war on education, and stubborn refusal to bring in affordable child care despite the crisis forming under their watch.»

So instead of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specEducation in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq speceducation to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specifically.

This way of thinking about education reappeared among the Romans in the expression liberalia studia, «liberal studies» or studies liberated from the concerns of practical doing, studies concerned with all the activities that belong to «play.»

1Gates is one of the authors whose essays are included in a collection edited by Darryl L. Gless and Barbara Hernstein Smith, The Politics of Liberal Education (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990).

As to curriculum, Dupré points out that many Catholic schools have reduced the ideal of a Catholic liberal education to «a few courses on religion, ethics, and a smattering of philosophy in an otherwise wholly pragmatically oriented curriculum.»

Movement toward such a new contract has begun already in several states, most notably California, where the liberal emphasis on education and training has been combined with the conservative emphasis on demanding something in exchange for a welfare check.

Second, it is trying to more thoroughly explain, and in the light of my Tocquevillian / Liberal Education sociology of middle class music / identity, why the transition from rock n» roll to Rock occurred in the first place, and why it set a certain pattern of middle - class mixtery - music that was doomed from the beginning to fall into its now - obvious mode of Perpetual Repetition.

Recent defenses of the Greek ideal of liberal education are couched in terms of «forms of knowledge» or publicly distinguishable ways of understanding and organizing experience that are structured around distinctive sets of concepts, statements, and tests against experience (LE 113 - 118).

Americans are deceived into believing expressing one's own belief in public except for promoting common, collective immorality is unacceptable, thanks to liberal media and liberal education.

City liberals have an irrational fear of guns that could be cured with a little education in the country.

Robinson reminded us of the original, authentically neo-Puritanical Oberlin: The only college in America at the time which offered a liberal education to both blacks and women, and the place where everyone — including the professors — both studied and did useful work.

So the reason THE FEDERALIST is LIBERAL EDUCATION is that's a great tool for teaching how to follow partisan but deep political arguments in tough — but not that tough (each FEDERALIST is pretty self - contained and short, for one thing)-- texts.

What is even more disappointing is how this attitude of liberal irony seems to downplay what is at stake in education.

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

The conclusions drawn by Bruce A. Kimball in Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (Teachers College Press, 292 pp., $ 19.95) are of a different kind.

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.

From his vantage point as president of Harvard, Bok analyzes the dilemmas of liberal education, showing how its coexistence with the demands of professional schools in times of change and uncertainty requires its advocates to set it on a sound course.

In education for true liberty, whether in work or play, it thus appears that the spirit of liberal learning should prevaiIn education for true liberty, whether in work or play, it thus appears that the spirit of liberal learning should prevaiin work or play, it thus appears that the spirit of liberal learning should prevail.

Kimball's Orators and Philosophers traces two distinct traditions in liberal education.

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 fashioIn 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 fashioin a liberal education, provided it is treated in a liberal fashioin a liberal fashion.

Liberal education is in trouble today, he contends, because its proponents do not know its past and do not understand the historical tensions that could be exploited to give it new life.

By demonstrating how accommodations have been reached between contrasting traditions in liberal education, Kimball compels his readers to rethink their understandings.

If modern liberal education is to provide for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional liberal arts, but it must do so without sacrificing the variety and scope made possible by modern advances in knowledge.

From this point of view, liberal education may appropriately be concerned with anything in the whole range of human experience.

The «fun principle» inherent in recreation has infected liberal education and this problem is discussed in detail.

Thus, an unlimited range of subjects are appropriate to liberal education, provided they are taught in a liberal manner.

Kimball, whose research seems to have taken him into every debate on liberal education through more than two millennia, draws his vast findings together in two contrasting models.

In this respect ideal modern liberal education agrees with the allegedly useless classical education.

To assert that modern education should be infused with the ideals of recreation is to affirm the centrality of liberal studies in the curriculum.

The eclipse of liberal education, as Allan Bloom recounts it in The Closing of the American Mind (Simon & Schuster, 392 pp., $ 18.95), occurred at Cornell University in 1969.

By focusing on the well - being of students after graduation in relation to their undergraduate program, the report returned to a basic premise of a liberal - arts education: moral formation for civic life.

The original intention behind a liberal - arts education in the ancient world was to provide moral and cultural formation.