Sentences with phrase «what liberal education»

Nice to see what a liberal education begets — F - bombs from this totally inept and useless so - called senator.

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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.

So instead of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specEducation in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq speceducation to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specifically.

And if we are allowed to pursue our «liberal» studies undistracted by what does not belong to them, we may thank the survival of an ancient tradition of education for our good fortune.

For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

What «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence of what is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalitWhat «Effective Christian Education» shows most effectively, however, is the fraudulence of what is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalitwhat is presented as the «scientific» study of religion — and the credulity of church leaders who can not distinguish between Christian faith and liberal sentimentalities.

What we have termed «bureaucratic theology» has dominated much of the UUA's theological education and political organization until recently, giving outsiders the impression that the movement was simply a very liberal continuation of Protestant impulses.

What is even more disappointing is how this attitude of liberal irony seems to downplay what is at stake in educatWhat is even more disappointing is how this attitude of liberal irony seems to downplay what is at stake in educatwhat is at stake in education.

At the present time much of what is called liberal education in the arts and sciences is organized as a collection of specialized studies.

A liberal education, literally and historically, means education for men of leisure — men who are free to choose what they will do with their lives, men who are not slaves.

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.

Education, including liberal education, for the most part has consisted in the transmission to the younger generation of what the older generation regards as tEducation, including liberal education, for the most part has consisted in the transmission to the younger generation of what the older generation regards as teducation, for the most part has consisted in the transmission to the younger generation of what the older generation regards as the truth.

In what follows I intend first briefly to identify four distinct senses in which liberal education is related to freedom, and then go on to elaborate the fourth of these relationships in some detail.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

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

What I have proposed thus far is a clarification of the difference between job training, research, liberal arts education, and professional education, along with an indication of how they might be embodied in future institutions.

If you look at what we are saying about decentralising power, the environment, opposing identity cards, the priority given to education, I think there are a lot of people in the Liberal Democrats who would agree with that.

The Education Committee reiterated what has been a long - standing concern of the country's liberal community: revising the curriculum of state school textbooks on Pakistan Studies, which glorify Muslim warriors and portray India as «Hindu» and Hindu as «the other».

He also opposes «liberal education,» and what he considers to be government overregulation of business.

Their reforms, in turn, have successfully steered most American students away from a liberal education, what Ravitch defines as «the systematic study of language and literature, science and mathematics, history, the arts and foreign languages.»

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

Colleges and universities must both prepare students to succeed in a competitive job market and provide the liberal arts foundation necessary for lifelong learning, said the participants in the series, «Preparing for a Good Future: What Kind of Education Do We Want After High School?»

Patting himself on the back perhaps a bit too often for being «tough - minded,» Macedo insists that, properly constructed, a civic education fostering liberal virtues is compatible with a great deal of diversity — and that what it is not compatible with does not deserve our respect or solicitude.

These are the folks who think they know what should constitute a liberal education and are perfectly happy to impose it on everyone else.

What sort of civic education is necessary to sustain our liberal democratic regime and the freedoms it enables us to enjoy?

It's hard to fault individual parents who want a liberal wonderful education for their kids, but if all of us who can flee the fight for quality public education for all, what you get is sub par factory model a-democratic inequitable authoritarian test driven schools.

After all, it was centrist Democrat reformers (along with liberal Democrat reform allies) who pushed the administration early on to call for a speedy reauthorization of No Child, and stood by over the past year as Duncan and his team at the U.S. Department of Education have engaged in what can be best called a misinformation campaign that has denigrated No Child's accountability measures as being broken.

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.

The rest are more vague, and seem to be what a true liberal arts education should be, including math and science.

«The curatorial studies program offers our students a unique opportunity to learn first - hand what it takes to create a first - class exhibition,» said Spelman President Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D. «It's also a prime example of the College's mission to develop programs and spaces much like the Museum and our planned arts, innovation and entrepreneurship center that harness the power of a liberal arts education.»

One of YCER's first steps will be to address what Combs calls the «lack of education» among conservative Americans who may have tuned out the energy debate because they see it as a strictly liberal agenda.

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