Sentences with phrase «academic ideas of»

This was equally true at the start of the 20th century, when those heroic modern masters Matisse and Picasso began to grapple with the great Western tradition and replace academic ideas of beauty with a revolutionary and, at times, shocking new reality.
It's small and deeply troubled, is a foundation darling, has creative new leadership, and is pursuing the popular academic ideas of the day.
An academic idea of liberty?
The academic idea of having a full house of assets morphed into the idea of robo advising, aided by the very low fees robo advisors charge.
I think that for the generation of artists in Mexico which I'm part of, it was very important to reject the academic idea of the artist.

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A good coach will be experienced and will also know the theory of business, so that when they offer ideas you can sure they are based on good academic research.
Or as Stephen Gordon puts it, academic economists «generally remain open to the idea of using well - thought - out infrastructure projects to promote long - term growth.»
Industry and academic experts will help attendees formulate their business ideas and judge their pitch to a panel of investors.
Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.
When that same idea comes up in academic circles, it's more likely the self - interest they are trying to preserve is their own interest in avoiding the hard work of figuring out which business behaviours are unethical, and why.
Rodin: This is something I continue to do, whether it's academic or business — there are a lot of really good, interesting ideas, but only a few really spectacularly important ones.
High school students could then access all the information for free and come away with a pretty good idea of, say, the academics, the cafeteria, or how hot (or not) the girls and guys were.
Following are some of the ideas discussed at the event, attended by more than 250 chief executives, academics, directors, entrepreneurs, and investors.
The two Belgian academics are charter members of a global network of activists and thinkers who for decades have been trying to build the intellectual and political foundation for the idea.
There are individuals trying to push this agenda, and very helpful academics, such as Michael Porter with his idea of shared value, are trying to develop measurements and make them more credible.
Its research activities seek to develop actionable, prescriptive theory that can guide general managers in the decisions they must make, re-invigorating general management research by following a proven research process, refining it through collaboration with practitioners, and then distributing it to a broad audience In pursuit of these goals, the Forum both hosts conferences to bring together academic experts, leading practitioners, and Harvard Business School alumni to develop current ideas and engages in extensive publishing activities.
Now, so too has the academic who advised our federal minister of finance that it would be a smart idea to change the 40 - year - old rules that govern Canada's small businesses, with a mere 75 - day «consultation» process, in the dog days of summer.
«The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by glorifying the idea of diversification.
We found the idea for the quality metric in an academic paper by Robert Novy - Marx called The Other Side of Value: Good Growth and the Gross Profitability Premium.
, drawing on the ideas of the great investors, academic discoveries and corporate strategic analysis — see www.glen-arnold-investments.co.uk.
It is these academics who are now floating the idea of raising the inflation target to 4 % from 2 % on the pretext that it will be easier to achieve negative real rates without having to breach the zero - interestrate bound — the next time they are called on to save the world!
A culture of bullying has taken over in this area, and the idea of academic freedom, wide enquiry, and genuine debate and analysis is no longer seen as essential in university life.
As an Enlightenment idea, «academic freedom» is usually associated with a rationale that depends on a particular view of human nature.
It takes profound educational work and continuous discernment, which must involve all the academic community, promoting that synthesis between intellectual formation, moral discipline and religious commitment which Blessed John Henry Newman proposed in his «Idea of University.»
The success of the EP and other followers of Hauerwas in incarnating his ideas in church practice may finally determine his «success» as an academic.
The major problem in editing a journal of ideas like First Things is that most of our contributors are academics, and many academics, not to put too fine a point on it, write barbaric prose.
He lives in a world of ideas, he deals deftly with theory, and he trains other academics to do similar things.
This raised questions about the Enlightenment idea that the sort of reason embodied in academic disciplines could liberate human beings from error and provide the basis of social life.
Academic freedom that's officially indifferent to truth or about «the free marketplace of ideas» always serves the forces of progressivist liberation; it implies, as John Stuart Mill seems to teach, a strong bias against truth claims that limit personal freedom or, as our Supreme Court now says, relational autonomy.
The test of academic freedom is the ability of employees of the university to present ideas that are deeply opposed by the constituency that provides its funding.
One problem is that, among academics in what Peter Berger calls the global faculty club, assumptions about secularisation are driven by the intellectual history of ideas, with slight attention being paid to what persists in being the real world.
She doesn't read a lot of books or spend dozens of hours each week studying... but she always knows more theology than I do, and always asks penetrating questions which shoot holes through all my acadamagician ideas (Yes, I just coined that term... it's a cross between academic and magician... because that's what most theology is.
The term «Slactivism» was born in 2009, when academic studies discovered that people who are the loudest on social media in favor of a cause or idea are the least likely to volunteer or make a donation.
To admit that our ideas require public verification does not mean that the scientific forum, or any academic context for that matter, is the best one in which to test the truth of revelation's substance.
Black Christian academics and pastors are well aware of the attraction of Islam for African - Americans, but many reject the idea that it represents a threat to Christianity.
As it is, theologians go on endlessly about the repression of academic freedom and of their ever - so - creative ideas while ignoring the Magisterium's invitation to face up to the full importance and dignity of their task.
As we briefly discussed in our last editorial such thinking is behind the extremely widespread academic ignorance of the idea of the spiritual soul.
Unlike some of his academic - level books (such as The Resurrection of the Son of God), this book contains almost no footnotes, scholarly discussion of Greek words, or involved critique of ideas from other scholars.
The very idea of a university was that it should bring together all academic pursuits and give a man a completely balanced, an all - round, a universal education.
Though no clear - cut idea of the theological school or of theology as a whole is as yet in prospect, a sense of renewal and promise, a feeling of excitement about the theological task is to be felt in the academic climate and it is accompanied by invigoration of intellectual inquiry and of religious devotion.
Several academics have developed the idea of «Lived Religion» — the idea that religion is not simply a list of rules or practices, and in fact is much more clearly understood in reference to the way it influences individual lives.
For a 24 - year - old honours student, fresh from undergrad, with NO conference experience, the idea of interacting with highly respected academics, world leaders, and even potential employers, was pretty daunting.
Of course it has flaws, and I agree the academic community has different standards, but I don't think he created it to inform the academic community, or have his ideas published in academic journals.
When the first murmurings of this scandal began to surface in 2011, Roy Williams was adamant in his assertion that he had no inkling of an idea that something was going on, and was actually outspoken in his defense of his programs» academic track record.
The Waldorf School of Garden City's ideas and people cross more than academic disciplines — they transcend languages and nations.
A study of seventh - graders revealed that those who put more value on learning than on making good grades were able to push through academic challenges more easily than those who had fixed ideas about how smart they were.
Some of the ideas he has brought to light — that preschool is a great government investment given the payoff later in life, that building character matters as much for success as academics — are so deeply ingrained in my own thinking that it's hard to remember I had to learn them somewhere.
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One of the most important things that you can think of when looking for preschool curriculum ideas is to find some books that would develop their academic and social skills.
The teacher should have the best idea of whether the child can meet social and academic expectations.
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