Sentence examples for western schooling from inspiring English sources

Boko Haram, translated by many as "no western schooling", is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist sect advocating a strict form of sharia law.

However, even though the amount of education for indigenous islanders increased over the following century, Western schooling under the Dutch never reached the majority of the population.

For the indigenous peoples, Western schooling had the appeal of leading to employment in the colonial government and in business and trading firms.

But it's also been pointed out that, for example, many of the Middle Eastern oil sheikhs had an expensive Western schooling and it hasn't turned them into liberal democrats.

Tablets loaded with literacy apps were provided to three locations: rural Ethiopia, where no schools or even written language were to be found; suburban South Africa, where a 60 1 student-teacher ratio makes hands-on education difficult; and a rural U.S. school with low-income students — an average Western schooling situation for contrast.

His English is impeccable, much better than his Arabic, the result of many years of good Western schooling.

"Western schools focus on knowledge," he says.

It also became the seat of some Western schools, including a missionary medical college.

By inviting leading Western schools, the government is hoping to address one of the notorious stress points in South Korean society.

Unlike many Western schools, Skolkovo does not harbour "rather arrogant ambitions" to change Russia's business environment.

Western schools want students to be proud of their achievements, while the Chinese emphasize that humility enables self-examination.