Sentences with phrase «of liberal education»

Here's how these three pillars of the liberal education worked together to lead me into a successful career as an Internet analyst and business writer.

On the contrary, he was described by a contemporary as «a man of liberal education and enlarged notions».

I lament the want of a liberal education.

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.

The contemporary philosopher AC Grayling discusses education in the following way: «The aim of liberal education is to produce people who go on learning after their formal education has ceased who think, question, and know how to find answers when they need them.

But throughout his long career, Ravitch maintains, Dewey routinely disparaged traditional subject - centered education and often stoked the rhetorical pyres built for such defenders of liberal education as William Chandler Bagley and Robert Maynard Hutchins.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

A discussion of liberal education must start from a working definition.

Teachers» unions have long found friendship among Democrats (with the exception of some liberal education reformers who are supportive of Obama - era education policies) so we might expect that as Democrat lawmakers were ousted during the recent wave of Republican victories, so were the NEA's allies.

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.

In 1909, President Woodrow Wilson, who was then the president of Princeton University, said «We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity to forgo the privilege of a liberal education.»

Best Commentary: James Garland at The Chronicle with «The Value of Humility in Academe (No Kidding)» «Humility is an important educational goal because it is the bedrock of a liberal education.

Nord would accomplish his goal through special courses and by persuading, even forcing, educators to acknowledge religion as an integral part of liberal education.

Of course you might well feel that this is the situation in our institutions of liberal education even today, and the new shift is only revealing the truth of our present situation.

I have come to this conclusion partly because of the influence of the University of Chicago's approach to graduate education, and partly because of the view of the purposes of liberal education to which my teaching has led me.

«Someone once asked Woodrow Wilson when he was President of Princeton University what the function of a liberal education ought to be.

It signaled the beginning of a new phase in the history of liberal education.

The most prevalent argument currently offered on behalf of liberal education is that it best prepares the student for graduate or professional school, for executive leadership in business, or for being a wife or mother in a professional or executive family.

On this account, science deserves a central place among the disciplines of liberal education, provided it is taught with due regard for its essentially constructive character.

Each domain of inquiry within the curriculum of liberal education has its own characteristic features with respect to the practice of freedom.

The younger writers are so self - conscious, so steeped in a certain kind of liberal education, that their characters can't condone even their own sexual impulses; they are, in short, too cool for sex.

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.

But this should not be construed as approval for nonintellectual practical or manual activity within the scope of liberal education.

This rejection of liberal education of any kind is unwarranted.

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.

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).

Were Kimball's analysis to inform every discussion of the goals and strategies of liberal education, the ideas and goals advanced by Boyer and Bok, and possibly even those by Bloom, would more readily be fulfilled.

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.

The attack has frequently been directed at the idea of liberal education itself, apart from its classical form.

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.

As Freeman Butts observed: ``... where the conception of a liberal education was firmly grounded upon religious and intellectual authority and discipline, the prescribed curriculum was more likely to be maintained longer against the inroads of the elective system with its attendant doctrines of freedom and flexibility.»

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).

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).

our country will be the worse for it as more students face the brainwashing of liberal education's agenda to promote blind acceptance that truth and creed do not exist.

products of a liberal education as was I.

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 skills.

Not exact matches

Some academics see undeclared majors as the epitome of Deweyan education, the last vestiges of America's one - time liberal - arts sensibility.

The education measures have been promised by the Liberals as part of the benefits of restraints on wage and benefits for 9,600 unionized teachers.

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.

Women are most likely to move away from education (by more than 1 percent share of women's enrollment if counting all education fields together), literature and language, sociology, psychology, and liberal arts and history.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

Education is often associated with liberal opinions on a range of issues.

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.

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 Liberals need to immediately scrap their policy of funneling scarce healthcare and education dollars into private sector projects and start using the Pacific Carbon Trust to lower the carbon footprint of schools and hospitals,» said Dix.

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

«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.

And the 2006 and 2008 elections, former Calgary Board of Education trustee Jennifer Pollock carried the Liberal banner against Mr. Anders.

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...