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Example sentences for "general education"

  • In nothing is this Province so defective as in the requisite available provisions for, and an efficient system of, general education.

  • Those which give a boy a general education, but prepare him at the same time for the military profession.

  • Perhaps the most neglected branch of history in general education is intellectual history.

  • I have not a doubt that they ought to be got rid of, as branches of special medical education; they ought to be put back to an earlier stage, and made branches of general education.

  • But it is only fair to the Scottish Universities to point out that they have long understood the value of Science as a branch of general education.

  • But while in view of such an advance in general education, I willingly obey the natural impulse to be thankful, I am not willing altogether to rest.

  • The first essential is general education approximating to matriculation, and definite study of literature should be required from the first year.

  • John Eaton, as Commissioner of General Education, has stamped his name, indelibly, upon our country's history.

  • These children attend school for eight years and may then continue in schools of general education, technicums, or other schools.

  • General education is compulsory for all prisoners under forty years of age who have not completed eight years of primary schooling.

  • What do all the changes enumerated by Buckle (250) indicate as to the spread of general education, irrespective of schools, among the English people?

  • Other of the early American statesmen expressed similar views as to the importance of general education by the State.

  • He had been placed there, the authorities would say, to receive a general education, and a general education he should have.

  • But there is a great field for the practical arts in general education,--a field which no scheme of vocational training can possibly occupy.

  • The majority of our youth are taking some practical-arts work as a part of general education in either the elementary or the secondary school, and surely these young people will want to do something in this emergency.

  • The most novel provision proposed was that which went to apply a portion of the clergyman's income to the purposes of general education.

  • In the committee, Lord John Russell substituted "moral and religious instruction" for "general education.

  • The Act provided for the appointment of a Board of General Education to consist of five members, together with a Minister of the Crown who would, ex officio, act as chairman.

  • On the morrow he was to take his final examination in general education, and that was no small obstacle between him and his shield.

  • All morning he had battled with the examination in general education.

  • From this necessity of the division of labor in modern times there arises the demand for two kinds of educational institutions——those devoted to general education (common schools, colleges, etc.

  • The former present in different compass all the sciences and arts which are included in the term "general education," and which were classified by the Greeks under the general name of Encyclopædia.

  • This point of view is seen in our own country in the popularizing of general education.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being ready; general battle; general chapter; general engagement; general idea; general ideas; general laws; general level; general literature; general manager; general merchandise; general order; general pacification; general principle; general prosperity; general reserve; general staff; general verdict; general very; general way; general welfare; generally believed; generally distributed; generally preferred; generally represented; mission schools