Sentence examples for attempt to educate from inspiring English sources

This exclusivity that once defined India's middle class was part of British design: "… it is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people," Thomas Babington Macaulay, the pioneer of colonial education in India, is quoted in the Bureau of Education's minutes from Feb. 2, 1835.

He did, however, secretly attempt to educate himself, showing a facility for composing poetry.

Whether as a joke or an ardent attempt to educate, Bernstein guaranteed exposure for the new and unfamiliar.

The broadcast was surely an attempt to educate the French public about the country's role in the Nazi genocide.

The people who attempt to educate public opinion about nuclear weaponry seem to be divided into two groups.

Akbar said Roy's "beautiful writings in Bengali" were an attempt to educate people without directly attacking religion.

They suggest that by measuring baseline knowledge through a questionnaire, implementation costs could be saved by directing education at practitioners with low knowledge, rather than attempting to educate all practitioners.

I am also attempting to educate customers about the benefits of low-carbon electricity.

Alan Dershowitz attempts to educate his students at Harvard on the necessity of storytelling in the law.

No words, no explicit messages, no attempts to "educate" them in what they should think.

Newly hired guards scurried about the galleries in frantic attempts to educate visitors.