Sentences with phrase «book learned professor»

I am not a book learned professor or vet, simply a guy that has learnt and studied with involvement of various species commercially for over 50 years.The BIG school!!

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Professor and author Dr. Barbara Oakley helps readers learn to retrain and reinvent themselves during a time of rapid technological change with her book, Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential.

Inspired by the book Different by Harvard Business School professor Youngme Moon, I learned our brains don't work well with «Choice A or nothing,» scenarios.

What can you learn from this much discussed book by the high - profile Wharton professor?

I learnt this eventually, in the course of general reading, from a book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's book to all my children.

One of the things you learn early if you read Professor Michael Porter's seminal book Competitive Strategy is looking for new competitors to your market.

We learn a greatdeal about the mentors against whom Kierkegaard rebelled» particularly Heiberg, the Hegelian litterateur, and Mynster, the Danish bishop» but, strangely, we learn almost nothing about the only mentor to whom Kierkegaard dedicated a book: his philosophy professor Poul Martin Møller.

He had entered university at the age of twelve but quickly discovered that he would learn more from private reading, later telling a friend that «there is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.»

The Wesley Ministry Network (WMN) enables people to sit in on the seminary lecture hall (via DVD), chat with other students and even the professor (over the Internet), and read the books their ministers had to go to seminary to learn about.

The Wesley Ministry Network (WMN) enables people to sit in on the seminary lecture ball (via DVD), chat with other students and even the professor (over the Internet), and read the books their ministers had to go to seminary to learn about (see www.WesleyMinistryNetwork.com).

You have one of the real greats with it comes to ethics — Professor Stephen Gillers who has literally written the book and is the expert and has forgotten more about the topic than I will ever learn.

Underneath the symbol are three words; access, equity and quality and the logo features an open book, which the Minister of State in - Charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, explained: «represents learning that generates hope and optimism for a prosperous Ghana.»

«Children do learn a lot when parents read books with them and many parents read to their children several times each week,» said co-editor Professor Jessica Horst of the University of Sussex.

Partha Niyogi, author of the book The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution and a professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Chicago, says these empirical findings are consistent with theoretical models on the lexical evolution.

In the article and the book he describes how many successful scientists are mathematically «semiliterate», and reveals how, as a 32 - year - old Harvard professor, he sat with undergraduates (some his own students) to learn calculus and achieve an undistinguished C. His aim is not to deter, but to encourage talented would - be scientists who aren't naturals with numbers.

PBS Newshour has shared an abridged version of a chapter from Stanford professor Paul Oyer's book: Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating.

YAHOO.COM - Feb 14 - Stanford economics professor Paul Oyer wrote a book «Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned From Online Dating».

Surprised to learn that any of his magic was effective, Professor Browne leads his four guests to the old book he's been plagiarizing.

Moreover, reading a classic on your own time can be a bigger intellectual adventure than reading it for college credit, when you know you'll be graded on having learned the book's standard interpretation and the professor might be pouring that conventional wisdom into your head before you've even finished the text.

What brought us together was Professor Mark McDaniel's book, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.

Professor Paul Harris» new book looks at how children learn, whom they trust, and why even a beloved wizard seems too magical to be real.

Growing up, Professor David Perkins wasn't especially good at baseball.Yet it was America's national pastime that Perkins turned to when he started writing his recent book, «Making Learning Whole.»

In his book Learning by Doing, Oxford professor Graham Gibbs suggests that writing reflectively can be extremely helpful for cognitive growth.

This new book, which includes former Ed School Professor Hiro Yoshikawa, diagnoses the obstacles to quality early education and offers a blueprint for making sure every child's early learning is fully supported.

It prompted Harvard professor and Education Next's editor in chief Paul Peterson to profile Julie alongside Horace Mann in his book Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning.

Sylvia Chard is a Professor Emeritus of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta and coauthor of Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach, a popular book for teachers of young children on learning through projects.

He is a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), co-founder of MIT's Media Lab, and author of major books on children and learning.

In his book, Free To Learn, Boston College psychology professor and self - directed education advocate, Dr. Peter Gray, writes: «Children are biologically predisposed to take charge of their own education.

As Boudett and City explain, the book was a natural progression from their prior work together — along with Professor Richard Murnane — Data Wise: A Step - by - Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching And Learning.

L. A. Williams, an education professor from the University of California — Berkeley, wrote in a 1944 book that most American high - school students of the era were simply «incapable of learning so - called liberal subjects.»

And though Hacker and Dreifus, a former Queens College political science professor (and frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books) and a veteran science reporter and editor, respectively, turn in what appears to be a useful essay about the challenges ahead for the CCSS, Peter Cunningham, a former assistant secretary of education, says that Hacker and Dreifus themselves «contribute greatly to the confusion and misinformation surrounding the issue of learning standards.»

«One of the major advantages of project work is that it makes school more like real life,» says Sylvia Chard, Professor Emeritus of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta and coauthor of Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach, a popular book for teachers of young children on learning through projects.

In their new book, Teaching and Learning for the Twenty - First Century, published in May by Harvard Education Press, Professor Fernando Reimers, Ed.M.»

When Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor David Perkins looked back at his childhood little league and «backyard baseball» experiences, he found the perfect metaphor for the set of teaching concepts presented in his 2008 book, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education.

I co-wrote, along with my father, who was a professor of education, a book on implementing adult learning methods and technology in high schools.

Panelists included Steve Wilson, senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, who discussed private management and his recent book, «Learning on the Job: When Business Takes on Public Schools,» and Anrig Professor Richard Elmore, who provided commentary on Wilson's book and the overall issue of private management of public schools.

In our last episode of the Whole Child Podcast, we discussed personalized learning in the 21st century global marketplace with professor Yong Zhao, author of the ASCD book Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization.

Join Dr. Nancy Frey, Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and co-author of the new book Visible Learning for Literacy, as she delves into how Hattie's findings apply to literacy instruction and how educators can implement the practices that work best to accelerate student lLearning for Literacy, as she delves into how Hattie's findings apply to literacy instruction and how educators can implement the practices that work best to accelerate student learninglearning.

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christiansen's book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns claims that by 2019 technology will replace brick - and - mortar schools.

Seligman's alarming journey from psychologist working with learned helplessness to his connection with the CIA was revealed in a 2011 book written by law professor and ethics expert M. Gregg Bloche (current co-director for the Georgetown - Johns Hopkins Joint Program in Law and Public Health).

Allison Rossett, long time professor of educational technology at San Diego State University, is the author of award - winning books and many articles on learning and performance support; she is also on the Guild Advisory Board.

Mr. Peterson, a professor of government at Harvard University and a Hoover Institution senior fellow, is author of the forthcoming book «Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning» (Belknap / Harvard University Press).

For anybody working to advance student learning and teaching quality in America's schools, this book should be required reading,» said Linda Darling - Hammond, President of the Learning Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus at Stanford Unilearning and teaching quality in America's schools, this book should be required reading,» said Linda Darling - Hammond, President of the Learning Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus at Stanford UniLearning Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.

«This book reminds us that we need to go back to models of learning and use them to help students see similarities and differences, learn how to summarize and take notes, practice deliberately, use imagery to build a deeper conceptual understanding on which they can «hang» surface level knowledge, learn from one another, solve problems, generate and test hypotheses, and give and receive feedback,» wrote education professor and author John Hattie in his foreword to the publication.

Book report writing is very important and most of the professors see it as a tool to evaluate your proficiency and skills in learning.

We can learn about famous Boggarts of the past, what Dumbledore gave Hagrid's predecessor Professor Kettleburn on his retirement and the origin of the wizard adage «I'll take Cadogan's pony,» amongst many other fascinating pieces of background and insight into the books.»

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By the time I was in graduate school, I realized that much of the «history» I'd gotten from those books was rather suspect, but I'm not sure if I would have ever become a professor of history and government if those books hadn't gotten me interested enough that I wanted to dig deeper and learn more.

The Professor and Great Investor («GI») in this 11th lecture recommends two books to learn how to read a financial statement.