Whether the efforts are purely educational or have a more specific goal, like cleaning up a neighborhood, most share a common thread: They are firmly rooted in the believers' religious traditions.

The purpose is purely educational and pedagogical.

The civil liberties union says the particular history of how the schools came to be closed in the Sycamore district is evidence that the reasons were not purely educational or secular.

The purpose of the experiment, as told by Whiteman in a pre-concert lecture in front of many classical music critics and highbrows, was "to be purely educational."

As a participant in the five-week program test, the Ford Motor Company produced and aired noncom-mercial announcements that were purely educational and informative.

Early programming was purely educational, in some cases consisting of nothing more than a teacher standing in front of a chalk board and lecturing.

At the time, the university's Regents cited her ultimate mission as apolitical and purely educational: "She sought to elicit the truth about old people, especially those distressed in mind, body, or estate."

I suggest that we are being misled by those whose interests in mediated teaching go beyond the purely educational.

Mr. Mandel added that purely educational programs ("Sesame Street," for instance) work best for preschoolers, but his clients generally do not want to advertise to the very young.

They have been criticised for their motivations (financial and religious, rather than purely educational), and for luring teachers away from the state sector.