secular education

collocation in English

meaningsofsecularandeducation

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secular
adjective
uk
/ˈsek.jə.lər/us
/ˈsek.jə.lɚ/
not having any connection ...
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education
noun[S or U]
uk
/ˌedʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌedʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the process of teaching or learning, especially in a school or college, or the knowledge that you get ...
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(Definition ofsecularandeducationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At the same time the frontier between monastic andseculareducationwas an uneasy one.
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Speakers of indigenous languages, of course, presented special problems for the purposes ofseculareducation.
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They also raised the issues of free maintenance for schoolchildren,seculareducation, and the payment of trade union rates for board employees.
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A 'modern' and 'systematic' life with goodseculareducationfor one's children is now a widespread aspiration.
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In his adult life, his challenge was to understand his subject in such a way that it would remain centrally important, but be suitable to aseculareducation.
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I have gone into a school at the time whenseculareducationwas proceeding.
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I cannot see why parents should not have the same privilege over theseculareducationof their children.
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There is something more involved than mereseculareducation.
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In the past, all elementary education, as far asseculareducationis concerned, has been under the control of the local education authority.
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Why do we value a great advance inseculareducation?
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It was on the ground of economy, and also on the ground of theseculareducationof the children.
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It has been their object to encourage local education authorities to destroy church schools in the interests ofseculareducation.
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Let us look at the question ofseculareducation.
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The control of a non-provided school as of a provided school as far asseculareducationgoes is the same.
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I should be the last to maintain that any denomination should retain its schools if it were not capable of providing properseculareducation.
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That is true inseculareducation, and it is just as much true in religious education.
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At presentseculareducationis under the control of the local education committee.
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I am referring now, having passed from one subject to the other, toseculareducation.
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It is of course an absolute absurdity when it is said; as far asseculareducationis concerned it is an absolute absurdity.
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I for one hold the view that a variety of schools in any district is an advantage toseculareducation.
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