Sentences with phrase «making good citizens»

, what about making good citizens?

The strength of Stephen Macedo's Diversity and Distrust is its insistence on evaluating public schools on the basis of whether they are indeed making good citizens.

Including making good citizens and drone workers out of the people well in debt to them.

Barack Obama claims reading fiction made him a better citizen.

In short, property ownership makes better citizens.

The ancient art of civility is the art of living together in the city gracefully and cooperatively; civility exists to make good citizens, and its lack occasions the worst evils of the city.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Religion makes good citizens and will enable their sons and daughters to be contributing members of capitalist society.

Plato, he said, would have us believe that there is no need «for a natural base on which to form conventional ties; as though the love of one's nearest were not the principle of the love one owes the state, as though it were not by means of the small fatherland which is the family that the heart attaches itself to the large one; as though it were not the good son, the good husband, and the good father who makes the good citizen!»

Family religion arose as a means of returning to «simple Bible truths» which made good citizens.8

And one can certainly make the case that teaching students habits of respect, self - discipline, perseverance, and delayed gratification — whatever the justification — will make them better citizens.

In 1862, the Illinois superintendent of public instruction contended that the «chief end» of public schooling was «to make GOOD CITIZENS.

Not to make precocious scholars... not to impart the secret of acquiring wealth... not to qualify directly for professional success... but simply to make good citizens.»

The average Mini has a cheerful, outgoing, fearless, emotionally stable disposition, qualities that make him a good citizen and a great companion.

Not exact matches

The book's exploration of the causes of this housing crisis and possible solutions (as of yet incomplete pending further research, Gates notes) will also make you a better informed citizen.

And exploiting it would make for better corporate citizens in the bargain.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

In saying that the government stands with «consumers» — rather than citizens or voters or, God forbid, shareholders — Clement diminishes the federal government's importance, making it nothing more than the complaints desk at the Better Business Bureau.

«It would also likely be the catalyst for other countries to enact similar laws, paralysing multi-national corporations under the weight of what could be dozens or hundreds of country - specific laws,» Apple said, as well as making the personal data of millions of law - abiding citizens less secure by weakening encryption standards.

And they're great values that make us better spouses, parents, neighbors, and citizens.

This was widely interpreted as a rebuke to France's newly minted Socialist president, who is making good on campaign promises to tax the hell out of high - income citizens as a means of bridging the country's yawning deficits.

Acting on this interest in expanded dialogue between Canadian millennials and our peers in Asia will provide us with the types of soft skills that will make us more effective learners in the classroom, better negotiators in the workplace, and more informed citizens.

If these are the good jobs of our nation's future, let's make sure that Amazon HQ2 is helping us prepare our own kids, unemployed workforce, and returning citizens for them.

If Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and other founders were to time travel to 2016, they would almost surely be troubled by the threat that inequality poses to the well - being of citizens and democratic governance and ask, «What are your policies to make the U.S. what it should be, the most favorable country in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit?»

The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»

We have had so many new citizens who come to make a better life for themselves and their families, leaving all else they know and love, to do so.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

The long - term vision is a country in which citizens, specialists, professionals, academics, community groups and even businesses can work together, developing innovative information access and visualization tools, better decision - making models, and more tools responsive to the needs of the citizens.

I plan to continue to push the B.C. Liberal government through this fall sitting of the legislature to finally stand up for good democracy and make the shift necessary to put individual citizens at the centre of our democracy.

Ms. Russell wrote with penetratingly keen insight, and as a result, I am much more cognizant of why policy makers in Canada defer in favour of the interests of multinational oil companies rather than making decisions that are in the best interest of the ordinary citizens of central and eastern Canada when it comes to oil security.

yet if i am to judge on past choices made by my fellow citizens, well then, i am left depressed with the knowledge of our enablity to make a rational choice concerning the governmentship of this country!

are people so simple they crave the misguided beliefs of others to feel better about themselves or are we triing to understand the lunacy of our citizens to believe something as pathic as a 3000 year old IDEA in order to act properly when voting in those who will run this country for the next 4 years a.k.a. voting in one who using rational thinking and logic to make choices!

Yeah, make women wear veils, treat them as 2nd class citizens, that's definitely best for society.

And Mitt Romney's religion makes it one of their sacred duties to do their best to ensure that my son is forever kept as a second class citizen.

«Good versus Evil: it is that simple,» declared a businessman's letter urging Bloomington citizens «to prayerfully make it a matter of immediate personal decision: to shun the sodomites and their supporters, to use every lawful device to eliminate homosexual activity in this area, and to rededicate our community to standards set forth by God.»

Personally, I wouldn't forego an opprotunity to make things better in my community, by being involved as a good citizen to whatever extent my conscience and my resources would allow.

God's will was to be made to prevail in the public life of the nation as well as in the personal lives of the citizens.

A good Army is made up of citizens who are at least third generation and love ur country and its ideals n stupidities 2 bits.

Society must thus be secured against the intrusions of the Good, or of God, so that its citizens may determine their own lives by the choices they make from a universe of morally indifferent but variably desirable ends, unencumbered by any prior grammar of obligation or value (in America, we call this the «wall of separation»).

When you make a career of being intolerant toward your fellow human beings as well as American citizens (as Mr Sprigg has), a response of intolerance shouldn't come as a surprise.

I watched the show, and am a American caucasin female from a very rural, but not southern area.I found the show interesting and thought provoking.Just as in our own Judio - Christian religions, women are expected to be somewhat subserviant and makes our American Islam citizens seem pretty much like any other citizens.I found this to be a good and humanizing feature.If you love U.S.A., and are a citizen you are the same as anyone else.Just encourage each other and us, too.

From Athens we inherit two seminal ideas: that the good life is the life of moral and intellectual excellence, and that the good city is one that makes this good life possible for its citizens.

In short, a strong case can be made for saying that, as both the common good of society and the particular good of citizens is now threatened by political voluntarism, so also both the common and particular good of lovers (and families) is threatened by the voluntaristic and limited nature of the promises and undertakings that typically characterize the new reformers» account of sexual relations.

in the Greek thought, the polis was the place that could make its citizens better.

Liberalism and the politics of the nation - state sought to make men good citizens and women good private persons.

To make a long story short, the «Hitler's Pope» campaign was highly successful, with the result that the calumny against Pius is now almost universally accepted by the opinion - making elites and by plenty of average citizens as well.

The republicans (i.e., the reluctant supporters and anti-Federalist opponents of the new Constitution) supported a tradition of political thought that wanted to see government «make of its citizens the best people they are capable of becoming,» to inculcate moral virtue as it was defined by each concrete political community.

That does not make them any the less true and good citizens.

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

Claiming to know God and walk with Him while not caring for the poor (Big on God's heart), not being good stewards for the environment He gave us, and not being responsible common sense citizens, doesn't make sense at all, and frankly casts doubt wheather you really have encountered Jesus or know His heart...