Sentence examples for educating mind from inspiring English sources

This review of Discernment: Educating Mind and Spirit (Lantern Books) is part of the Green Books campaign - and a fitting next step in this ongoing series about Work.

It is a potent mix of inspiration (saving lives and educating minds is eminently doable) and accusation (why, then, is the rich world not doing it?).

The only way it can be stopped is by opening hearts and educating minds.

For the American educational reformer John Dewey, scepticism was "the mark and even the pose of the educated mind".

Is the precision of the killer's knife the product of an educated mind?

"There's a quote: 'a mark of an educated mind is someone who can entertain an opposing thought without agreeing.' I think that intellectual rigour is really important, and something we should continue to challenge ourselves to do".

It seems to me that the great difficulty of writing is to make the language of the educated mind express our confused ideas, half feelings, half thoughts, where we are little more than bundles of instinctive tendencies".

Another way of looking at it is to say that to predict well-known public events several years after they have occurred is not perhaps the most demanding of tasks for an educated mind.

And if one in fact finds "malicious jokes" funny, "is one therefore morally complicit?" Pigliucci thinks the best way out of this conundrum is offered by Aristotle, who said with characteristic wisdom, "it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it".

Perhaps Aristotle is more appropriate than Einstein: "It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible".

"It is an educated mind that considers a point of view without necessarily accepting it".