Sentences with phrase «promote civic virtues»

We also know that they can promote civic virtues, that the U.S. Supreme Court found voucher programs constitutional, that they can be held accountable, that district reform has not led to the improvements needed, and that chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats yet.

It's a way to talk about promoting civic virtues and mutual understanding.

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Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.

Accordingly, early American tourists made their own «Grand Tour» of Europe, seeking out ancient and modern cultural role models that would promote social status, civic virtue and cultural refinement at home.