He emphasized the educational process as a means for social improvement through the progressive building of a better society.

"As with all social improvements, they're fine while they last," he said.

The emphasis on education is a means for social and national improvement.

Harvard's faculty members saw the law as an instrument for social improvement.

He took an interest in other associations for social improvement.

He was a prominent figure in Chicago's social, educational, and civic improvements.

For example, prior to 1967, the government assigned higher priority to social improvements, such as health and education, than it did to national economic growth.

In 1825 commissioners for the social and economic improvement of the town were established.

What accounts for these social improvements across the whole field of human affairs, between your age and mine?

In 2001, the group noted, there was a range of social and environmental improvements.