Sentence examples for beacons of learning from inspiring English sources

Through our Libraries Development Initiative, we have worked with partners in local government to find ways to keep libraries alive, both as beacons of learning and as community hubs.

Common sense should also tell you that just because you make a school independent of local authority control – which is effectively all an academy is – it doesn't magically turn it into a beacon of learning.

I was born in Damanhur, Egypt and raised in a land of civilization and advanced knowledge from another era that, during the time of Ptolemy, spawned the Library of Alexandria and museum and educational center -- that ancient beacon of learning believed to be tragically extinguished by the Roman conquerors.

We honor the original purpose, which was to foster the spirit of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment as a beacon of learning, a rejoinder to the obscurantism of the Dark Ages.

For over a thousand years, al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement.

New academies (state schools run outside local authority control) have created beacons of achievement for others to learn from.

To avoid dunking heads in tainted water, Mr. Jackson said, "kids in Beacon never learned to dive".

The various Arab caliphates were dynamic superpowers beacons of learning, tolerance and trade.

In the modeling phase, like the traditional data dissemination strategy, the roadside infrastructure sends the beacon packets periodically to learn the presence of passing-by vehicles.

The learning centre has been recognised as a beacon of excellence by the Learning and Skills Council and Neale was a final contender for the Guardian's 2005 Public Servant of the Year award.

Today, Beacons and Twenty-First Century schools again try to reduce the impact of social class on learning.