Disabled people have the capacity and the right to be productive contributors to society but are often perceived as passive recipients of services.

No longer passive recipients of instruction, pupils are encouraged to be active collaborators in the learning process.

Working side-by-side with the paid staff allows them to stay active and maintain a normal regime, rather than becoming passive recipients of care.

If you want to introduce education into this country you'll have to ban the natives from having any role in it, except as passive recipients.

These reformers, however, were not passive recipients of a message from on high.

The directly concerned populations are invariably viewed as passive recipients of plans.

"Certainly there will always be the couch potatoes, people who want nothing more than to be passive recipients of magazines and movies," he said.

No longer would the homeless be passive recipients of aid.

And unlike each previous mass medium, the Web does not require its audience to be merely passive recipients of information.

Skinner favored active learning in the sense that students were not merely passive recipients of information doled out by teachers.