Sentences with phrase «traditional liberal education»

It's a literature - based curriculum based on the traditional liberal education.

James K. A. Smith is right to emphasize the role of religious colleges in preserving traditional liberal education for the future.

Traditional liberal education centered around classical literature.

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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.

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.

The following three principles distinguish the desirable new liberal education from the traditional liberal arts.

For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

An extra # 2bn in education spending on Britain's most disadvantaged four - to six - year - olds will be a key Liberal Democrat demand in the event of a hung parliament, rather than their traditional call for electoral reform, Nick Clegg says.

Traditional undergraduate degrees are offered in health sciences, psychology, education, business, engineering, and liberal arts.

threaten the traditional focus on the disciplines of liberal arts and sciences, and the one - time appeal of a broad general education.

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.

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.

This is the traditional justification for a «liberal» education.

Liberals are correct: She represents a radical counter to traditional public education systems.

Some colleges are transforming traditional developmental education into accelerated pathways that are relevant to students» programs of study using the design principles of guided pathways introduced by Bailey, Jaggars, and Jenkins, which allow colleges to cluster hundreds of programs of study into a handful of broad areas (e.g., liberal arts, STEM, business, and health).