We want people to be free to think for themselves, and speak their minds and pray as they choose.
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The goal is that more young Scots leave school able to think for themselves and deal with a fast-changing world.
Correspondent Donald Macintyre describes how one Japanese university, departing from decades of tradition, is educating kids to think for themselves.
They most often were ruled by dictators or oppressive regimes that had no desire to allow their people to think for themselves.
And also celebrating that for the first time in years that some of the youth in this country were starting to think for themselves.
With a 77% literacy rate (Syria 83%, Lebanon 89%, Kuwait 94%, Libya 88%)maybe enabling people to think for themselves has not been quite a priority.
Instead, she teaches her readers how to think for themselves.
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The most frustrating aspect of the novel, however, is the paradox of Hailsham's students being so expensively educated and taught to think for themselves, yet so fully accepting of their fate.
The emphasis now is on encouraging pupils to think for themselves, and to develop flexible learning skills that will enable 60% of 18-30 year olds to be in tertiary education by 2010.
Although we all walk that fine line between having conviction and just being stubborn, the key here is that those who succeed over the long haul in the stock market game have learned to think for themselves.
They can begin to think for themselves.
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And in my estimation and the estimation of most other people that I know who are able to think for themselves, we went in there with no hope of ever achieving victory from the very first day we invaded.
Like people everywhere, they have the universal right to think and speak for themselves.
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This week's state visit might have been a chance for Americans to remember their wisdom in creating a parliament for Japan half a century ago and even to think of creating one for themselves.
And I told the President that it is very important to further enhance the partnership and our alliance, and at the same time, in order to pursue that goal, it is important for the Japanese public themselves to think really about the significance of our alliance, and for them to think about the decisions for the future of our alliance.
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That, he hopes, will help change the whole culture of the company, to one where managers think for themselves and shed the bad habits of the past.
New power centres will force a new breed of politicians to switch off their pagers and think for themselves.
And it will be a question for all 100 members of the Senate to ask themselves about whether or not they think that voting for and supporting an assault weapons ban would actually do something to reduce gun violence in communities all across the country.
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Ms. FONTS: I think they probably kept it to themselves for a while because they didn't want to cause, you know, a huge outroar.
Yang: What we are doing now is to try to make Chinese businessmen and the younger generation recognize there is something similar among all of mankind, to have good wishes for other people, and to try to get people to think about the relationship between themselves and others.
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They have to start thinking for themselves on the field and not think about what they've been taught.
They need to think financially, so that when faced with divorce, they can act wisely to secure a solid financial future for themselves and their families.
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We all like to think about what we might receive at the holidays, and most of us are fortunate enough to take gifts themselves for granted.
In response, he incites his students to tear out the pages, reject accepted norms, and think for themselves.
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Then everyone would have had a chance to get what they all say they want: investors who think for themselves.
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"I think many find the idea of committing themselves to one party for life a bit scary, " says Jonathan Isaby, who recently joined the Taxpayers Alliance pressure group as its political director.
And I just can't think it's a bad thing for people to educate themselves and get smart and to have their own information source so they can sit down with that realtor and have an educated conversation.
At moments of crisis in the Middle East, Christians have tended to pack and leave to build safer and more peaceful lives for themselves elsewhere - think of Palestine in 1948 or Iraq in our own turbulent times.
This is because they think power may not be the best way for states to defend themselves against a new kind of threat: the sort that comes not from other states but networks of states and non-state actors, or from the unintended consequences of global flows of finance, technology and so on.
And I think that ensuring that as we go forward people are making decisions, again, based on what's good for -- good for the country, not just what's good for themselves, I think the American people need to have that confidence based on the fact that they've made tremendous sacrifice to ensure the stability of our financial system.
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