Sentences with phrase «better teaching and schools»

At best, we'll get better teaching and schools.

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You are speaking from the standpoint of cisgendered privilege, and probably didn't go to an Ivy League school anyway, where you would have been taught better.

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Many of the best scientifically validated tips and tricks for faster learning are never taught in school.

What young people choose to study and what post-secondary schools teach seldom matches up well with what employers need.

That may work well for grade school, but life and business teach us other lessons.

«We go to school and are taught reading, writing and arithmetic for [however many] hours a day and then taught that getting a good grade is better than getting a bad grade.»

Tess will provide you with tools, advice, and «a sister or best friend who knows a lot about that grownup financial lingo they don't teach us in school».

He is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at UNC — Chapel Hill, and teaches in the Minor in Entrepreneurship as well as serving as the instructor for two private equity classes at Kenan - Flagler Business School.

«It's not going to transform the economy unless they then share all of those ideas and best practices with their competitors,» said Craig Garthwaite, a health economist who teaches corporate strategy at the Kellogg School at Northwestern.

As a preeminent business school that creates, teaches, and applies life - changing knowledge, Tuck educates wise leaders to better the world of business.

The EMH school taught me that diversification was a free lunch, and therefore a very good idea.

Mr. Cohen also teaches finance and entrepreneurship in the MBA program at Harvard Business School, as well as Investments at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

When Santorum or Rick Perry was the nominee it was all about social issues and bringing us back to being a «Christian nation» in good standing with God for the Republicans, we heard a never ending drumbeat about abortion, prayer in schools, teaching creationism, and trying to end funding for planned parenthood, even stopping the funding of birth control.

The teachers at two different Catholic schools, as well as many years of Cathecism taught me that questioning your faith is a natural and desirable trait, since when your faith wins, it will have grown to be that much stronger.

These ideas come from our own childhood, whether good or bad, from the media and from seeing the experiences of our friends and relatives: pushing prams with sleeping babies along the riverside, teaching our children to walk, training them how to draw with crayons rather than eat them, answering cute questions, making star charts, walking them to school.

Michael could have continued to hold the best chairs at the best schools and to win all the teaching awards.

I told you before that I was a layman who has been a Sunday School teacher, and that I have taught in missionary settings as well as in counselling.

Today the center also addresses other issues of life and living; staff members teach semester - long courses in intermediate and high schools, as well as offer workshops and group counseling to the bereaved.

The proper thing to teach young black males is to stay in school, get good grades, choose a respectable career field, attend church regularly, be kind and couteous to everyone you meet, repect and support the police, stay off drugs, don't steal, don't assault people, and quit thinking the man is out to get you.

But his solution is not «more science and better science» as the Head of Physics at a school where I once taught averred during a staff meeting.

«The most important book published by the Holy See in this generation for Catholic education,» says Bishop O'Donoghue, «is theCatechism of the Catholic Church, and its summary, the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church»; he says that «it is vital that both the Catechismand the Compendiumare used by teachers in our schools and colleges, who can guide pupils in how to make best use of them»; that «the key to unlocking this treasury of Church teaching....

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

Though the school still hobbles along doing its best to teach the Western canon, it's been critically wounded and is sure to be one of many institutions gutted by such ruthless activism.

To be sure, there is no school without teaching, and more effective teaching would make for better schooling.

Probably gave him a good deal on the Book of Morman so he could teach sundy school with them and tell all the children about how Mormans can have two and three wives, how placks are the cursed of the earth.

Although private schools in the real Belmont and other neighborhoods populated by the affluent teach well - to - do teenagers to be nonjudgmental, tolerant, and inclusive, the social environment is still safely bourgeois.

Jeremy, I'm need a good school that truly teaches and you experience God's breathe words.

Evolution is taught in school as it should — but other theories should at least be mentioned as well to open a dialogue and inspire kids to think for themselves.

Now, as to the matter of teaching creationism in schools, I don't think it's a particularly good idea however, I also think that Darwinism needs to be taught as a theory and that children need to be taught about the strengths and weaknesses of the theory.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

I support teaching evolution and feel it is the best current theory to be taught in our public schools.

Schools could recognize faculty members for effective committee service as well as for teaching and research; churches could honor those who pray and visit as well as those who preach and sing; families could praise helpful and encouraging children as well as the athletic or beautiful.

CNN having three guest all believing that it is a good idea to promote god or teaching about god in the schools and not a single guest with different ideas on this subject is just wrong.

It does not, however, make any less imperative the inclusion of recreational concerns within the school curriculum, for it is in the program of formal education that meaning, perspective, and direction in leisure activity may best be taught.

I wish the schools would focus on teaching children math, science and other things required to make our society better, rather than focussing on this non-issue.

I do nt belive we should, as a hindu and a american my holidays and holy days arent included, school is for learning skills that will help in your building a good life for yourself not for teaching religion leave that for in the home.

Speaking on Premier's «News Hour», Katrina Lee, who worked with Sister Philomene at the Catholic Diocese in Sydney said: «she did a lot of good work for the Archdiocese of Sydney in renewal and pastoral planning, as well as teaching at the school.

Seven years of teaching in two genuinely pluralist settings — first at the Catholic University of America and then at the University of Chicago divinity school — convinced me that however inadequate my own present answers to this question may be, the question itself is well worth asking.

In schools where I have taught, school is in session on Rosh Hashannah, Yom Kippur, and Good Friday.

The «non-believers I know are perfectly alright with the people who believe raising their children teaching them what they believe as all «factual», and often it is a part of our schools, and government as well, and there also taught as «factual».

Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.

Good Christians are interviewed by the police in their homes for daring to express Christian teaching on homosexuality, a charity worker is sacked for even discussing such views with a fellow worker, home - schoolers are placed under suspicion, a nurse is sacked for praying with a patient, and campaigners seek to force organisations in the name of equality to employ people who want to cross-dress part - time.

The blog goes on to say that in the Church's schools, the subject will be «rooted in the teachings of the Church», including «the importance of trust, loyalty, fidelity and the Christian understanding of marriage as the context for sexual relationships, as well as the understanding of abstinence and celibacy as positive life choices».

But at least an all inclusive school won't teach that your religion is better than another person's, and therefore they are lesser people for it and less worthy of life.

i searched for teachings to add to our discipleship training school subject — the disciple: know your enemy and found your own good.

Giving them handouts instead of insisting that fathers BE fathers and teach thier kids to value school and make good grades.

Better far to set aside the systems of theology and schools of divinity and come like a little child to the eternal fountain of Holy Scripture, and there drink in the living teachings of God's Spirit.»

Clement of Alexandria and Origen, as well as Augustine and Jerome, encouraged Christians to use secular schools, because they recognized the value of Hellenistic culture, provided it was subservient to Christian teaching.