Sentence examples for education encouraging from inspiring English sources

Since its creation in 1959, the New College at Hofstra has emphasized interdisciplinary education, encouraging students to build their majors across departments.

She was committed to challenging sexism in education, encouraging girls to study science and maths, and fostering the appreciation of art and music.

He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies.

Lots of measures are needed: improving education, encouraging monogamy, delaying the age of first sexual encounter, helping young women to win a greater say over their sex lives and widening access to antiretroviral drugs that lessen sufferers' infectiousness.

Its recommendations in 1987 included diversifying upper secondary education, improving moral education, encouraging greater local freedom and responsibility in developing curriculum, improving teacher training, and fostering diversity in higher education.

In Japan, the American occupation under General Douglas MacArthur effected a peaceful revolution, restoring civil rights, universal suffrage, and parliamentary government, reforming education, encouraging labour unions, and emancipating women.

While educated men have more children than their unschooled counterparts, education encourages women to marry later and have fewer and healthier children.

Insofar as contemporary education encourages abstraction over experience and specialization over breadth, it compromises those ideals.

Worse still, emotional education encourages an inward-looking orientation that distracts children from engaging with the world.

True moral education encourages critical thinking and cannot be assumed to promote virtuous behavior any more than education about economics can be assumed to promote thrift.

The foundation promotes the right to education, encourages leadership, and works to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil.