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Example sentences for "educational"

Lexicographically close words:
educate; educated; educates; educating; education; educationalist; educationalists; educationally; educationist; educationists
  1. The child's whole educational opportunity is contained in two factors; the personality it brings and the environment it gets.

  2. The Brothers of the Common Life joined together, in order that, living simply and by their own industry, they might observe a rule of constant prayer: and they became in consequence a powerful educational influence.

  3. The "conversion" or psychic convulsion which is sometimes regarded as an essential preliminary of any vivid awakening of the spiritual consciousness, is really a tribute exacted by our wrong educational methods.

  4. It is right here indeed in the educational field that concerted opposition to the naturalistic conspiracy against civilization is most likely to be fruitful.

  5. There is also a formalistic taint in the educational system worked out by the Jesuits--a system in all respects so ingenious and in some respects so admirable.

  6. Take, for example, the educational theory that has led to the setting up of the elective system.

  7. But the educational radical, it may be replied, does stress the idea of habit; and it is true that he would have the young acquire the habits that make for material efficiency.

  8. It is very stupid, assuming that it is not very hypocritical, to denounce Kultur, and then to adopt educational ideas that work out in much the same fashion as Kultur, and have indeed the same historical derivation.

  9. The reply to it was Rousseau’s educational naturalism--his exaltation of the spontaneity and genius of the child.

  10. New discoveries in technology, educational opportunities and a refurbished transportation network were naturally considered advances in their time; they could be loosely headed under the term "progress.

  11. The professionalization taking place was also due to the farmer's own recognition of his unique role and his attempts to enhance it through farmer's clubs, educational opportunities and community projects.

  12. The park's purpose is primarily educational and historical, however it also offers recreational activities.

  13. Frying Pan Park is unique both in its attempt to interpret a style of living which has not yet completely vanished, and in its combination of educational and recreational facilities.

  14. The college at Campolide, the glory of Portuguese educational institutions, shared the same fate.

  15. In the colleges the great expenses required to provide our boys with board and lodging, with the comforts and amusements they enjoyed, and still more with what was required to keep abreast of modern educational developments.

  16. Parley's educational tales were undoubtedly the American pioneers in what may be readily styled the "travelogue" manner used in later years by Elbridge Brooks and many other writers for little people.

  17. Her father's educational conversations with his family were often committed to paper, and these also furnished material from which Miss Edgeworth made it her object in life to interweave knowledge, amusement, and ethics.

  18. Between the first and second parts of volume one the educational hand of Mr. Edgeworth is visible in the insertion of a "Glossary," "to give a popular meaning of the words.

  19. In educational circles there is no doubt that Miss Edgeworth won high praise.

  20. There fashionable and educational authorities had hitched their wagon to the literary star, Miss Edgeworth, and the followers of her system; while the religiously inclined pinned their faith also upon tracts written by Miss Hannah More.

  21. The books for American children therefore divided themselves into three classes: the denominational story, to set forth the doctrines of one church; the educational tale; and the moral narrative of American life.

  22. Goodrich wrote the educational tales, Abbott largely for the nursery, while Goodrich devoted his attention mainly to books for the little lads at school.

  23. But their sale was enormous, and a factor to be reckoned with because of their influence upon the educational and moral tales of their period.

  24. Whatever may have been the practice of parents in regard to their own reading, they wished that of the nursery to show not only an educational and moral, but a religious tendency.

  25. In England books were written; in America they were reprinted, until a religious revival left in its wake the series of morbid and educational tales which the desire to write original stories for American children produced.

  26. All sorts of educational agencies have been working to convince the public that individual and national health is too precious an asset to be entrusted to any quack who may spell his praise in printer’s ink.

  27. Abrams’ educational credentials there appears the statement that he also graduated from the “University of Portland” in 1892, receiving the degree of A.

  28. This is doubtless due to a fundamental weakness in our educational system.

  29. This Council is strictly an educational agency--it collects and disseminates knowledge about drugs, especially those drugs that are advertised to physicians and that are not described in the legal pharmacopeias.

  30. By the public votes of men and the private votes and public appeals of women, philanthropic and educational matters are being removed from the uncertainties and fluctuations of party action.

  31. To this fear the Suffragists catered when, in contradiction to their own dictum of universal suffrage, they asked Congress for a sixteenth amendment that should require an educational qualification for all, both men and women.

  32. Every educational institution that receives State support, from the primary school to the State University, is now open to women.

  33. Police matrons have been placed through their petitions, and educational and philanthropic work that is directly in the line of doing away with the liquor evil, and is worthy of high praise, has been accomplished.

  34. A rapid survey of some of the educational conditions that led to the state of things existing when Suffrage associations were formed, will be in place.

  35. Not so much to get off the farm, or to be near more colored people (as most of the younger negro farmers did) as to give the children better educational facilities.

  36. The older members are almost to a unit, with some exceptions, of course, against him and his industrial educational ideas.

  37. While chiefly devoted to the educational system of the United States, there are papers on important educational movements in other countries.

  38. If framed pictures can be afforded, there are good prints, lithographs and photographs which, if carefully chosen, can be both decorative and educational from the standpoint of art, as well as pleasing in themselves to the children.

  39. To disregard it should disqualify a teacher from taking further share in educational work.

  40. There is therefore no longer any need for the feverish anxiety of the early leaders of feminine education to prove that girls can be educated exactly as if they were boys, and yield at least as good educational results.

  41. An early educational authority, Salzmann, in 1785 advocated the sexual enlightenment of children by first teaching them botany, to be followed by zoölogy.

  42. In 1907 the Minister of Education established courses of lectures by doctors on sexual hygiene and venereal diseases for higher schools and educational institutions, though attendance was not made compulsory.

  43. In the future educational programme," he remarks, "sex questions must hold an honorable place.

  44. While in many fields of knowledge an unmarried woman may be a most excellent teacher, it is highly undesirable that children, and especially girls, should be brought exclusively under the educational influence of unmarried teachers.

  45. It should be the business of the central educational authority either to carry them out or to enforce on those controlling or employing young persons the duty of providing such lectures.

  46. He has a poorer chance in the South in spite of his increased educational opportunities and accomplishments, and he has a poorer chance in the North.

  47. The work of carrying into practice the grand educational aims of Condorcet and his coadjutors in the French Convention was enough to tax the energies of a Hercules.

  48. The result can scarcely be cited as a proof of his educational zeal.

  49. For educational purposes, France was now divided into seventeen Academies, which formed the local centres of the new institution.

  50. Perhaps the educational preparation through which we pass at college is not too favourable to this kind of power.

  51. A great educational institution in England will be found, almost invariably, built in a valley or on a marsh.

  52. She knows herself to be peerless, incomparable, the centre of the educational aspiration, not only of England but of the world.

  53. The first great educational centre was York.

  54. Lately the agitation for giving women the Parliamentary vote has brought a fresh incursion of feminine workers into the political field, and some of them have shown a remarkable originality in educational work.

  55. A more likely explanation is that most of the great educational institutions are ancient, and in the time of their building any great concourse of people had to settle close to the banks of a stream.

  56. Of course, Mr. Carnegie is not an educational specialist, and his good intentions will be largely exploited by the energetic mediocrities who control our educational affairs.

  57. He will know that his utmost province is only a part of the educational process, that equally important educational influences are the home and the world of thought about the pupil and himself.

  58. Nowhere except in France and North Italy is there any prospect of such an intellectual and educational evolution as is necessary before a great scheme of unification can begin to take effect.

  59. The necessary condition to the effective development of the New Republic is a universally accessible, spacious, and varied educational system working in an atmosphere of efficient criticism and general intellectual activity.

  60. But now, at every seaside town, for example, one sees a multitude of preparatory schools, which are really not simply educational institutions, but supplementary homes.

  61. A weapon a little better adapted to one class than the other, or a slight widening of the educational gap, worked out into historically imposing results, to dynastic changes, class revolutions and the passing of empires.

  62. The "Greegree Bush" has both an industrial and an educational purpose.

  63. For a number of years several educational institutions for Negro youths have conducted classes in Negro history with a similar object in view.

  64. Later on, when the army educational program was undertaken, he became the J.

  65. The army educational work received much support in the various huts, and two of the best equipped men in the J.

  66. We had very little athletic or educational effort; that was prevented by our constant expectation of an early departure.

  67. Jaynes, where we took up not only details, such as arrangement of services in the various units, but also the broader moral and educational problems.

  68. Large schools were started in each permanent division in the district, giving both common school and technical branches, with the army university at Beaune as the head of the educational structure.

  69. The educational and scientific institutions of Kiev rank next to those of the two capitals.

  70. As an educational and residential centre it retains high rank, and is a popular summer resort.

  71. The college, the chief educational centre in the Sudan, is a large, many-windowed building with accommodation for several hundred scholars and research laboratories and an economic museum.

  72. He also founded orders of School Brothers and School Sisters, to work in the various educational agencies he had called into existence, and he laboured to institute orphanages and rescue homes.

  73. Kharkov is an educational centre for the higher and middle classes.

  74. These figures startled men of all parties; and it was felt that not a moment more ought to be lost in providing for the educational needs which had been shown to exist.

  75. For thirty or forty years before the passing of the Education Act, a great deal had been done by voluntary effort towards supplying the educational needs of the people in England.

  76. Until the early fifties, and even well into them, educational endeavors and educational methods were crude, unorganized, wasteful of effort, and utterly uncertain of result.

  77. Sidenote: Early Educational Impulses] If a wandering schoolmaster came within call, they gave him a schoolhouse and a place to live in, and bade him "keep school.

  78. China and adventures during the Taiping rebellion, his intimate association with Tsang Kwoh Fan and Li Hung Chang, and finally his great work for the "Chinese Educational Movement" furnish highly interesting and good reading.

  79. In order to make the German people amenable to their will, and to prepare them psychologically for war, the Nazi conspirators reshaped the educational system and particularly the education and training of the German youth.

  80. Church schools and educational institutions were suppressed or subjected to requirements of Nazi teaching inconsistent with the Christian faith.

  81. If this be true, I question very much the wisdom of that part of the Japanese educational system which endeavours to centre all duty about the person of the Emperor.

  82. Such is the essential beauty of Our national polity, and such, too, is the true spring of Our educational system.

  83. I believe the permanent cure for our present evils will come though a property and educational test for voting that shall apply honestly and fairly to both races.

  84. Fitz, in addresses which are published in the American Physical Education Review, brings us at once face to face with one of the gravest problems of our educational system--the depressing effect of school routine.

  85. The report lays much stress on the importance of beginning the educational work with the children and upon the value of Nature study.

  86. The primary value of history is its educational value.

  87. But I stray from my point: all paths in a schoolmaster's mind lead out upon the educational plain.

  88. But still I find it hard to resist the conviction that, from the educational point of view, stimulus is more important than exactness.

  89. We have been discussing the introduction here of certain important educational reforms, in the direction of modernising and simplifying our curriculum.

  90. A blot, that created even more general indignation in Bohemia, stained Joseph’s schemes of educational reform.

  91. At the same time his educational works had attracted attention outside his own circle, and Gustavus Adolphus invited him to Sweden, to reform the schools in that country.

  92. The famous Chancellor, Oxenstierna, readily welcomed the Bohemian to Sweden; though, at the same time, he complained that previous educational reformers had pointed out faults without suggesting remedies.


  93. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "educational" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advisory; coeducational; communicative; cultural; didactic; disciplinary; edifying; educational; enlightening; hortatory; illuminating; informative; initiatory; instructive; introductory; lecturing; monitory; preceptive; teaching


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    educational institutions; educational qualification; educational work