Sentence examples for scholastic advantages from inspiring English sources

I have encountered quite a few Old Etonians in the course of my career, and whatever scholastic advantages Eton offers, it cauterises its pupils with a confidence that gives them a distinct advantage over those of us who are closer to Acland Burghley on the educational spectrum.

And -- not to be ignored -- Scholastic had the advantage of being able to build on a buzz that was already under way in Britain.

It is often a matter of survival that mental function is restored to an extent that the survivor can cope with the daily stressors and that children actively take advantage of scholastic opportunities and ultimately strive for finding ways out of the camp.

Scholastic, for one, has taken aim at Advantage.

He hatched a scheme to publish a Latin version of his physics (the Principles) together with a scholastic Aristotelian work on physics, so that the comparative advantages would be manifest.

The rise of a lucrative test-prep industry suggests that what is being tested is not scholastic aptitude but something like Alexander Pope's definition of wit: "Nature to advantage drest".

A similar phenomenon is occurring in the Republic of Ireland where many wealthy Catholics are undergoing unconvincing conversions to the Church of Ireland in order to secure a place for their children at Anglican schools, in order to take advantage of the lower teacher-to-pupil ratio and all of the scholastic benefits which that implies.

The sons of well-to-do families clearly had advantages, and men of the affluent and cultured southeastern region so threatened to monopolize scholastic competitions that regional quotas for those passing the metropolitan examinations were imposed by the government, beginning in 1397.

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390 pp. Scholastic.

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