Like all early Confucians, Xunzi was opposed to hereditary privilege, advocating literacy and moral worth as the determinants of leadership positions, rather than birth or wealth; and these determinants were to have as their foundation a demonstrated knowledge of the high cultural tradition the li.
The notion of visual culture justified their own lack of cultivation (why read?) while giving them a sense of moral purpose (as teachers of visual literacy).
Trying to get the lads - the young offenders - to write is a means to address not only literacy but therapeutic needs, moral reasoning, offence-focussed thinking and all at the same time.
As a result, the demand increased for children's board games emphasizing literacy and Christian principles, morals, and values.
It makes sense to have a moral reaction to the closing of libraries: literacy underscores the universal declaration of human rights, including the right to education, the right to work and the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Schools were expected not only to promote literacy, mental discipline, and good moral character but also to help prepare children for citizenship, for jobs, and for individual development and success.
Documenting the adaptation of an oral culture to literacy and modernization, these stories, moral guides, and how-to manuals were both lively and confusing, written in an exuberant pidgin called Mad English and littered with felicitous nonsense.
The term "test or device" is defined as literacy tests, educational or knowledge requirements, proof of good moral character, and requirements that a person be vouched for.
The moral of the story for Everywoman, beyond Georgeton's borders, is financial literacy.
Mainstream applied bioethics reflects the university mode of discourse when ethical expertise basically consists in a particular kind of literacy and fluency concerning a particular ethical grammar, developed for analysing and addressing moral dilemmas in preformatted ways.
