Sentences with phrase «which liberal education»

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.

His vocational preeminence presumably entitles him to the income and the leisure to pursue the good life for which his liberal education is intended to prepare him.

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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.

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.

Robinson reminded us of the original, authentically neo-Puritanical Oberlin: The only college in America at the time which offered a liberal education to both blacks and women, and the place where everyone — including the professors — both studied and did useful work.

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

Liberal education — in contrast to vocational education, in the usual sense of that term — is fundamental in that it is concerned with the ends of all living, toward which both labor and leisure are aimed.

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.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

«There is no real education without personal responsibility, and there is no responsibility without freedom» If true education is an education in the virtues then we can begin to see a link between the work of the Jubilee Centre and the work of the Benedictus College of the liberal arts, which places itself in a tradition stretching back through Blessed John Henry Newman, St Thomas Aquinas and St Augustine to Aristotle.

I finished my degree with a fairly good liberal arts education (which means a dangerous smattering of familiarity with the art, the history, the literature, the science, and the religions of our world along with my own course of study in communications).

In 1906 the newly elected Liberal government proposed an Education Bill which sought a dramatic reform of English schooling.

The issue of freedom is particularly acute with respect to liberal education, the ostensible function of which is to fulfill the ideal of liberty.

At one point it even commends to the attention of the EU «examples of Member States combining the liberal legislation of abortion with effective sexuality education, high - quality family planning services and the availability of different contraceptives which combine lower abortion rates and higher birth rates.»

He is editor - elect of Religious Education, editor of Philosophy of Education 1992, and the author of numerous articles, including «Science and Spirituality: Tradition and Interpretation in Liberal Education,» which will appear in Curriculum Inquiry.

The liberal optimism, which largely had abandoned the concept of sin and believed that the world could be put right by education and social and economic reform, was challenged by Karl Barth, Emil Brunner (1889 - 1966) and other continental European theologians.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

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.

A Christian, liberal arts education demands the very humility which intellectual or religious legalism often rejects.

On the other hand leaders of the Bible school movement have been developing a theory of liberal arts education with the Bible at its center, and through an accrediting association have moved toward standardization and steady improvement of a program which seeks to synthesize conservative evangelical Christianity with a valid educational ideal.

Peter was most passionate about education, higher education, and the liberal education that dealt with souls, and which he knew firsthand as a beneficiary and practitioner.

There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical; that is, no education which does not impart both technique and intellectual vision» (AE 74).

I am sure Pavlos Papadopoulos is right to emphasize the place of liberty and liberal education in his defence of the American institutions to which he refers.

This donation helps the school, which opened its doors in 1971, expand its Great Books — based liberal arts education.

A liberal education has a wide range of interests, challenging the student to think, to express himself well, to organize his thoughts, and to see reality, in total, more clearly — unlike STEM education, which channels one's mind into a single area.

This attitude causes liberal education to be disregarded because it is «old,» even though it is a treasure of outstanding past thinking which has not become obsolete.

A liberal education, if added to a STEM or business degree in graduate school, could greatly benefit our country, which has seen very little good thinking in government, politics, and business as of late.

Family members were well - educated, and David had role models to follow which pointed him to liberal and just causes and the best education possible.

I recently spent several days with the cardinal archbishop of Sydney on his home turf, where I was giving a series of lectures in support of Campion College, a new Aussie adventure in Catholic liberal arts education of which Cardinal Pell has been a strong supporter.

In her years of teaching she developed a concept of education that she expressed as «liberal education for all,» by which she meant an education that was broad and deep enough curriculum to be suitable for all children.

The King's College Athletic Training (AT) Program provides students with individualized, learning - centered athletic training education in the liberal arts tradition, which enables them to become confident, skilled, and principled Certified Athletic Trainers.

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».

The effect is to dump existing Liberal Democrat policy which seeks integrated education — in other words all young people to have opportunities to do vocational and academic study as part of a single curriculum..

This is partly because they've reduced the education budget as far as they can by introducing nursing bursaries, which both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have promised to reinstate.

A new network which aims to improve the teaching and learning of the Foundation Phase across all schools and education settings in Wales was launched today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty education settings in Wales was launched today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Education Secretary Kirsty Williams.

«Given the devastating impact the Tory education policies, which are supported by the Liberal Democrats, will have on state education, the leader should have the confidence to face up to the profession and argue the case.»

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

«Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are delusional if they think this announcement can airbrush out the key role they have played in betraying our children and young people by colluding with the Conservatives in the introduction of education policies which have robbed our children and young people of these important entitlements.

«Education funding per head in Wales is hundreds of pounds behind that in England, and that's despite the Welsh Liberal Democrat pupil premium which provides extra support for the poorest schoolkids in Wales like its English equivalent.

The liberal Democrat insisted to the State Senate, which Republicans control through a narrow majority, on the importance of keeping the local education system routed through Gracie Mansion.

Commenting on the Annual Report by the schools inspectorate in Wales, Estyn, which was published today, Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Education in the National Assembly, said:

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson, has called on the Welsh Labour government to use the money which will come to Wales as a result of today's school meals announcement in England to be used to fund a similar scheme.

As a result, however, the WFP largely had to sit on its hands while its liberal allies waged war against Cuomo during his first budget, which included large spending cuts to education and health care.

The Observer has been told that the defence secretary, Philip Hammond, and the education secretary, Michael Gove, raised their concerns at last week's cabinet meeting, saying the changes, which are strongly backed by Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats, should not be a legislative priority.

The Morrill Act, which in 1862 created the mechanism that has funded many of the nation's great public universities, called for institutions that would «promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.»

The study focused on liberal adult education, i.e. non-vocational courses, which are characterized by voluntariness, self - motivation, and goals related to hobbies.

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.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said:» It is bad enough that dedicated teachers are being driven away from the profession they love, but this is also laying the foundations for a disastrous teaching shortage in years to come if we can not train new teachers fast enough to replace the ones which leave.

The proposal, which must be approved by the legislature, would effectively abolish the undergraduate education major by requiring prospective teachers to major in the liberal arts or sciences.

Last fall, Wesleyan University launched its privately funded, two - year pilot program, the Center for Prison Education, which offers a liberal arts education to inmates at Cheshire Correctional IEducation, which offers a liberal arts education to inmates at Cheshire Correctional Ieducation to inmates at Cheshire Correctional Institute.