Sentence examples for progressive theory from inspiring English sources

They were synonymous with a progressive theory of composition that replaced classical forms with organic structure, harmonic freedom and subjects derived from literature.

It's certainly fair to say that Mr. Obama seems to be repudiating the progressive theory of the election; rather than go to war with Republicans and big business, Mr. Obama intends to reset both relationships.

As education secretary he took on teachers who preferred progressive theory to ensuring children from disadvantaged homes left school with the literacy and numeracy they needed to escape poverty.

"When you look at this proverbial choice of two futures in front of us, which we will decide in November, it's essentially kind of re-litigating the Enlightenment: natural rights, where our rights come from nature and God, to borrow phrase from Declaration of Independence... or this new idea, the progressive theory of government granted rights that the government now gives us".

I cannot blame the Jews if they ignore so-called progressive theories which no one else in the world has ever practiced...

We must cast away the progressive theories and the all-must-have-prizes culture that has done so much damage to so many children for so long.

I cannot blame the Jews if they ignore so-called progressive theories which no one else in the world has ever practiced..

In the 1920s education was to some extent subjected to the progressive theories held by certain Bolsheviks, but at the same time a basic program (on lines planned by earlier regimes) much improved the population's standard of literacy.

He felt that education was the best means to strengthen Indonesians, and he was deeply influenced by the progressive theories of the Italian educational reformer Maria Montessori and by the Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore.

He developed a keen interest in the experiments of the Bauhaus and other progressive design schools and movements that had grown in Europe, and successfully incorporated their progressive theories of dynamic type composition in books, catalogs and publications he designed for Lund Humphries, as the company's typographic consultant.

In the under-performing schools, lessons were often poorly planned and undemanding; and the pupils were too often left to do their own thing rather than actually being taught a hangover of the "progressive" theories that were foisted on teachers from the late 1960s.