Sentence examples for proper aims from inspiring English sources

The most basic problem of philosophy of education is that concerning aims: what are the proper aims and guiding ideals of education?

Given that consideration of education's proper aims is of fundamental importance for the intelligent guidance of educational activities, it is unfortunate that contemporary discussions of educational policy rarely address the matter.

This is that the mood and temper of the market (and also of politicians and of the press and public) consistently runs contrary to the proper aims and objectives of regulators/supervisors.

Writing of her grandmother in 1944, Porter noted, "The long difficulties of her life she regarded as temporary, an unnatural interruption to her normal fate, which required simply a firmness, a good deal of will power and energy and the proper aims to re-establish finally once more".

One may recognize that every animal good has its own standing, and one may respect that ideal, but "the right of alien natures to pursue their proper aims can never abolish our right to pursue ours" (Persons and Places, 179).

We therefore need an account of the proper aims and values of the criminal trial, and of the larger criminal process of which it is part an account that can then underpin a more adequately grounded critique of our existing criminal processes.

He also believed that the proper aim of polar exploration was not geographical discovery but scientific research.

Eventually, your eyes adjust to what the proper aim looks like, even from the side of the ball.

(Oscar Wilde, in his dialogue "The Decay of Lying," suggests that the proper aim of art is "the telling of beautiful untrue things").

John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "The constantly increasing target for the number of academies is not helpful and will create turmoil where consistent, steady improvement is the proper aim of school leaders and governors".

It seems to us the proper aim of a census is to find out not if your house is built over a basement or a concrete slab, but if a nation is built on a rock or in quicksand.