My first experience was educative.
Part of that vision was educative: a mission to bring the central Austro-German tradition to Manchester, as well as the new music of Berlioz, Liszt, and Tchaikovsky.
Hundreds of column inches have been generated by New Atheism and responses to it – not least in my magazine – and, if at times the debate has all the subtlety of It's A Knockout, it has also been educative, instructive and popular, in the important sense that it has been conducted in a language that most people can understand.
Bringing people together, for their own benefit but also to counterweight global economic forces and powerful vested interests, will not only bring material gain, it will also be educative, informative and empowering.
It was quite educative for me, going round with him, because he knows which tanks were ours and which were theirs, and the firing ranges of their guns.
It was an educative introduction to the politics of such negotiations at a time when Morch was learning fast.
It just takes the temperature: 'Whoa, that's no good, let's move to the right.' It has no sense of politics being educative, of politics changing the way people see things".
The content is educative and clinically relevant and its presentation across the national society cardiovascular journals of Europe represents a milestone in collaborative publishing.
It is trenchantly educative but wears its information lightly.
"Their songs are educative," he tells me in faltering English.
