Sentences with phrase «makes liberal education»

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

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«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 only difference is that liberals believe that education makes them intelligent.

Before the machine age liberal education was necessarily aristocratic, because only a few could enjoy sufficient leisure to make education for it necessary or desirable.

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.

The old liberal education made use of a relatively fixed corpus of standard materials.

And classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult for them to have a passionate relationship to the art and thought that are the substance of liberal education» (p. 79).

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.

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.»

Despite my appreciation for liberal arts education, I do not favor making it a part of all education beyond high school.

The humanistic contribution of the Renaissance improved the liberal arts, as well as modern natural and social sciences, must be a major part of any liberal arts education that would make sense today.

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.

Liberals, on the other hand, believe that the good life ought to be accessible to everyone, and that the State ought to provide certain services, such as health care and education, in order to make such a life possible.

Clegg could make education fairer by taxing private school fees Liberal Conspiracy http://t.co/CWz3T1c via @libcon

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The final paragraph, under the heading Education, reads: «If the response of the government to Lord Browne's report [the review into higher education funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any votEducation, reads: «If the response of the government to Lord Browne's report [the review into higher education funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any voteducation funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have today welcomed the announcement made by Welsh Lib Dem Education Secretary Kirsty Williams that schools will receive extra investment and support to support mental health services.

David Willetts» unfortunate comment last week about higher education being a «burden on the taxpayer» suggests that not only will Liberal Democrat ministers have to continue to remind their Conservative colleagues of the importance of social mobility, but they will have to make the economic case for building a learning economy as well.

«In his report on the financing of Higher Education (HE), Lord Browne has made several recommendations that, if implemented by the government, would put at risk the key principles in Higher Education — widening participation, fair access and financial equity — that must remain at the heart of Liberal Democrat policy.

Reich, a professor of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at CU Denver, found that middle and upper class «vaccine - refusers» are mothers who have the resources, education, and time to make decisions regarding vaccinations.

The Fed chairman also made a plea for the value of a liberal arts education.

With the exception of Finland, statistical data on liberal adult education is poorly available and the activities often lack a clear organisation, making the role of liberal adult education in educational policy and academic research less prominent than that of vocational non-formal education.

It all sounds like a recipe for the most noxious liberal jerk - off movie since «Crash,» but in the hands of writer - director Richard LaGravenese, Freedom Writers turns out to be a superb piece of mainstream entertainment — not an agonized debate over the principles of modern education à la «The History Boys,» but a simple, straightforward and surprisingly affecting story of one woman who managed to make a difference.

This education was nevertheless in the liberal spirit, as Mirel notes in making an important distinction: the education of immigrant children was in «civic nationalism,» not «ethnic nationalism.»

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.

Other parties such as the Conservatives, Green Party, and the Liberal Democrats, are yet to make any big education announcements.

The charge followed changes made in 1989 to Vermont's licensure standards that required all graduates of teacher - education programs to have a liberal - arts major by July 1995.

Both conservatives and liberals support strengthening the education and training system to ensure that young adults will have the kind of opportunities that will motivate them to avoid early parenthood and make marriage more likely.

I've been trying to make the case for a well - rounded, liberal education, but that idea has less support than I realized.

Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher, liberal education reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind of reform as an existential threat.

So it is ironic that the left, which has made right - wing anti-government arguments, and made common cause with Republicans to scale back federal control over education, has settled on a public message of attacking liberal reformers as crypto - allies of the GOP.

For those readers willing to concede that the liberal tilt in the education space has perhaps created some blind spots, here are some thoughts that may be helpful in making sense of the political landscape and the implications of the election.

Following the General Election in 2015, NFER, in collaboration with Full Fact, reviewed the education promises made in the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat manifestos.

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said these proposals made schools scramble for the same pot of money.

Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson David Laws said it was vital a wide range of modern languages were available in schools, and that Liberal Democrats support those parents who are making their case to the exam boards.

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.

However, if your child is majoring in the liberal arts, it may not make sense to take $ 100,000 out of your house to fund an education that results in a $ 35,000 per year job.

Of course some people out there scream foul and point to me saying it's my own fault that I'm in debt, and that to event think about free education in this country would make me a whining liberal.

This means implementing a multi-pronged approach of providing good care, fair, reliable behavior testing, rehabilitation if needed, and a commitment to making adoption an appealing option to the public by way of education, a foster home network, cooperation with rescue groups, good customer service, clean facilities, spay / neuter before adoption, and liberal adoption hours.

The experimental college viewed the arts as central to a liberal arts education and considered the arts broadly, dismissing the hierarchy between fine arts like painting and sculpture, the performing arts, and the applied arts of pottery, textiles, and jewelry - making.

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.

And that made it impossible for many Republicans, even if the had reasonable scientific education, to kind of take ownership of this concept of global warming because it was already sort of framed as a liberal or Democratic idea.

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.

Since its founding in 1875 by Henry and Pauline Durant, the College has remained true to its mission and offers an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.

Eligible resumes make display of education at a liberal arts college.

The liberal arts education you are receiving at Yale, regardless of your major, equips you with highly valued skills that will make you competitive as you enter the workforce.