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civics
[ siv-iks ]
noun
- the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.
civics
/ ˈsɪvɪks /
noun
- the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship
- the study of government and its workings
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But when their students asked them how they could teach civics if they could not vote, they took to the streets.
We stopped teaching civics in our public schools and outsourced the mechanics of government to “School House Rock.”
But from the looks of it, you should expect all the explosions, and none of the civics.
Although I suppose living in New Jersey is civics lesson enough.
Is the study of society undertaken with a willful ignorance of moral philosophy, theology, civics, and Econ 101.
The study of history and civilization, of sociology and civics, will do much in the first direction.
To indicate this more clearly they have applied to the study the name of "Community Civics."
The works and biographies of great men furnish many opportunities for incidental instruction in civics.
We already see advances both in the purpose and the plan of civics teaching and in the literature prepared for the schools.
As society is constituted the ideal has no place, not even standing room, in the arena of civics.
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