Sentence examples for educative from inspiring English sources

Thus the book is a story of education that confounds its own educative pattern.

Not everyone possesses a moral sense.[19] To Thomas Law (13 June 1814), Jefferson says that want of the moral sense can somewhat be rectified by education and employment of rational calculation, but such educative remedies are blandishments not aimed to encourage morally correct action, because that is impossible without a moral sense, but to discourage actions with pernicious consequences.

In the late 19th century, a variety of groups in the United States began to advocate for the creation of new vocational-education programs in schools, reflecting the then widespread belief in the moral, educative, and practical value of work.

Mr Temperton's collection of essays is consistently interesting and educative, but his contributors are preoccupied mainly with the way in which the euro will affect the financial markets.

Tynan never did convince British theatregoers that Brecht is anything more than an educative penance.

ONE of the earliest and most educative experiences western managers have in Moscow comes when their possessions pass through Russian customs.

In 1999, he remarked that relationships between teachers and pupils could be "educative"— true, but impolitic, given that Mr Woodhead himself once had an affair with a former pupil.

Far better, he said, to direct the profits toward a great educative institution that lasts for all time.In a similar vein Carnegie argued that other philanthropists were misguided when they gave money to the unworthy.

They do not see comprehensive schools as bracingly educative introductions to the real world, but ghastly, rough places where their nice, studious children will be distracted and bullied.Yet the battle lines are blurring.

Parker products were sold as entertainment, but are educative and unforgettable too.

Educative it may be, but it neither reveals anything new nor does it properly explore the United States' most contentious activities in the third world: its interventions in Latin America and elsewhere, the prosecution of the cold war, the role of the CIA, the Vietnam war, its failures in the Middle East.Perhaps more seriously, the account offers no coherent line of argument.