Sentences with phrase «as the reformers thought»

In making such a payment, Nebuchadnezzar is not «redeeming himself,» as the Reformers thought Catholics were claiming.

Not exact matches

In his book The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device — King C. Gillette, biographer Russell B. Adams, Jr. noted, «King C. Gillette had thought he might be remembered as one of history's social and economic reformers.

I think it is quite possible that, zealous student of philosophy as he was, he might admit that the way he argued his position was somewhat overly indebted to the mechanical thinking of his time and of the Reformers.

Recently, the catastrophist narrative has become more sophisticated and formidable, seeing Luther and the Reformers as setting in motion the patterns of thought and behavior that have led to the moral and political chaos we now see all around us.

Although Luther was most captive to this form of thinking, it also affected the other 16th century Reformers; Instead of seeing the Eucharist as a time mystery, they treated it as a space mystery, and probed the static problem of locating the body of Christ rather than the dynamic one of making contact with a saving event.

The Reformers» alternative conception of the way of love in the world begins with the insight that the tendency of man is to seek self - justification and to think of ethical perfection as an achievement of human freedom.

As the libertarian blogger Megan McArdle once pointed out, that possibility is more likely than it sounds: With the advent of no - fault divorce and the extension of welfare benefits to unmarried mothers, the late twentieth century demonstrated that marriage is both more important and more fragile than reformers had thought.

It is a transformation of the self, a realization of the true self; not an annihilation of the self as the classical Reformers seem to have thought.

There was no sense yet of «Catholics» versus «Reformers»; a separate structure for religion was not thought of by Luther or anyone else, But Luther's own theology was now clearly committed to the importance of the local church, the relative unimportance of any centralising religious agency, and a conviction of the positive evil of the papacy as it was.

In his ebullient, unreserved, communicative way, Luther let the world share in his happiness as well as his sorrows (three of his six children died in infancy or in childhood), and all Protestants, but especially the Lutherans, have thought and still think of him, the Reformer and enemy of the Pope, as the Protestant parson in the midst of his family circle in the Black Cloister of Wittenberg!

First, fiscal discipline is fundamental to Labour's thinking and policy development, underpinning every proposal we make, every argument we advance — not only because our wider message will not be heard if people see us only as spenders, and not also as reformers — but also because we simply will not be able to deliver the changes we want to make in government if we do not have strong public finances.

Richard Brodsky is a former Assembly member who had a reputation as a reformer, and is now a senior fellow at the Democrats» think - tank.

Think of all the times reformers have mocked «the factory model» of schooling, voiced exasperation that classrooms look the same today as they did one hundred years ago, and lamented that the school calendar still reflects an agrarian economy.

And what do his educator parents think of his career as an anti-establishment school reformer?

What makes these volumes particularly valuable for professional reformers is that they are written by people who hadn't previously thought much about high school except as a piece of their pasts.

The implicit message of the historical material is that today's reformers are not as original as they think, and thus their current ideas will not bring about the improvements they promise.

You can only sit through so many of these functions feeling invisible, having your true beliefs redacted, before you conclude many reformers think of people of color as ornaments, humans tools for meeting inhuman ends, in essence, the help.

If you think I'm wrong, that things are working out splendidly and just as advertised, then feel free to skip this article and my recent book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer.

In the thinking of most reformers these include such things as educational television, personal computers complete with «turtles,» floppy disks, ãŸäŸ's, satellite transmissions, and video games.

He does hit all the high notes — the ravages of poverty, the lessons of James Coleman, the further lessons of Richard Rothstein, even bringing in Joel Klein as the heartless reformer who thinks a student's home life is «irrelevant» — but ends up being completely off - key, forgetting that we now have dozens, if not hundreds, of schools that are succeeding in educating poor children.

But school reformers might take the 2015 findings as a red light on the dashboard, a warning that efforts to alter the public's thinking on education policy may be faltering.

As one put it, school reformers who hoped to receive NASDC grants had to «cast aside their old notions about schooling — to start with a clean sheet of paper, and be bold and creative in their thinking, and to give us ideas that address comprehensive, systemic change for all students for whole schools.»

I don't think that the existence of cheating «gives tacit support to arguments that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform,» it seems to demonstrate the problems that occur when reformers use low quality, and poorly administered, standardized tests as the primary measure of teacher quality.

Given that Kingsland seems to be a nice enough guy (as well as one of the more innovative - thinking reformers out there), your editor will be gentler in his criticism.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

Based on all the complaints from Washington State politicians and conservative Beltway school reformers such as Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute reported by Motoko Rich last Sunday in New York Times, you would think that the Obama Administration's leveled a great injustice by not renewing the waiver given to it two years ago to ignore the No Child Left Behind Act.

Centrist and progressive Democrat reformers have already spent the past two decades dealing with challenges to their thinking and efforts from both traditionalists within their ideological circles and from conservative reform allies, especially on matters such as school choice.

As a result, movement conservatives and conservative reformers close themselves off to knowledge and ideas that may change or widen their thinking.

Hess then turns around and berates current reformers, invested in such bustling, «more and better» solutions as accountability and mandated interventions for low - performing schools, for thinking too radically.

One would think Democrats who identify themselves as education reformers would fight for immigrants in state houses and in Congress.

By the way, he is also on the advisory board of ConnCan, a spin off of Achievement First, created by a friend of our Commissioner, and they both opened Amistad together years ago.Our Governor insults teachers and he has memorized 5 - 6 sound bites as given to him by Pryor / ConnCan / Achievement First — the «reformers» salivating while thinking of the money about to come their way.

Furthermore, as Brooks says, his serious education reformers rely on partisan think tanks for validation, as clowns would (clowns upon clowns, of course) instead of on professional organizations (the AAUP comes to mind) where real understanding of needs and possibilities lie:

These self - proclaimed «school reformers» use the term «failing pubic schools» to convince well - meaning but uninformed parents to send their children to charter schools that increase their children's segregation and treat their children as second class citizens, incapable of individuation and critical thinking.

It's best to think of Democratic reformers and the teacher unions as caught in a passive - aggressive marriage.

You'd think an effort to improve school standards and promote higher expectations for students — adopted by 45 states, embraced by the business community, and endorsed by governors and education reformers from both parties — would be about as controversial as motherhood and apple pie.

The battle over implementing Common Core reading and math standards — one which is revealing that some reformers aren't serious about helping all kids succeed (as well as demonstrating the consequences of failed traditionalist thinking)-- along with other fights, are necessary in order to provide our children with futures they deserve.

In other words, the current board is sharply divided along ideological lines, with members too often focused on scoring political points and talking as though they're channeling either UTLA leadership or the most rigid of reformers, rather than thinking independently to come up with rational ideas that advance the cause of sound education.

MORE ON WEAK COVERAGE OF DC SCHOOLS: It was think tank fluffery as well as inadequate local media coverage that allowed the DCPS scandal to fester and grow, write AEI's Rick Hess and Brendan Bell in their oped, DC graduation scandal shows how an uncritical gaze leads reformers astray.

Let's start with the obvious: I think Rick Hasen is exactly right to suggest that such a move by the lefties is actually a «relative victory» for campaign finance reformers, given the extent to which» [t] aking the case would have been an opportunity for the majority of Supreme Court justices to make things worse [from the reformers» perspective], such as by suggesting that limits on direct contributions to candidates are unconstitutional.»