Sentences with phrase «by ivory tower»

Conflating the way adults work with how children learn best is being pushed by ivory tower reformers who are completely detached from the realities of child development and classroom (group) dynamics.

This objection can only be raised by an ivory tower researcher who knows nothing about children and schools.

Under the «progressive» failures DeBlasio Dinkins we had 1990 anti-Asian anti-Korean Boycotts, the 1991 anti-Jewish riots in Brooklyn (which Gov Cuomos Girgenti report called the worst in NYC history, directed at Jews), the 1992 riots that tore apart Washington heights, and the crazy mugging and murder rates in the inner city brought on by the ivory tower left wing progressives who inflict criminals on all of us law abiding citizens of all races.

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The idea of building an ivory tower on a corporate campus goes back decades with the best - known — and oldest — run by General Electric.

I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from others in my interpretations.

Several of the chapters were encouragement and insightful, but many of the other chapters seemed to have been written by ivory - tower scholars who do not seem to be aware of the sin and violence that lurks at the door of most people's daily existence.

Or, some passing remarks from the halls of science by a wise and witty man who proves that the ivory tower has a view — including a view of sports.

Her ivory - tower vision and distorted views on energy would destroy small businesses and property owners who are hanging on by thread,» Faso said.

But after 10 years, she shocked her ivory - tower colleagues by giving up her tenured post to join the Manhattan district attorney's office before moving to the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

«This is not a time, if you care about the fate of the planet or of our republic, to retreat to the ivory tower,» said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, who also participated in the hour - long session hosted by AAAS on Jan. 26.

In fact, this ivory tower diet is typical of those invented at writing desks rather than by cooks working with real food.

Louder Than a Bomb DVD Review by Kam Williams Rhyme Doc Chronicles Chicago Poetry Slam Does the hip - hop style of rhyming and its down - to - earth subject - matter about life in the «hood deserve the same respect as the classical couplets of Keats and other lofty lyricists whose work benefits from ivory - towered academia's stamp of approval?

Candyman deals with transgression: the interracial romance; the intrusion of the white woman from the ivory tower into the ghetto of poor, inner - city blacks in their industrial oubliette; and eventually the invasion of institutions of economic and social privilege by a vengeful wraith from America's colonialist past.

Oscar's nicknamed «tadpole» by the doorman of his parent's penthouse ivory tower, and the peculiarity of the appellation is that it encapsulates the embryonic sliminess of the film itself.

One can hardly blame academics for avoiding all this unpleasantness by remaining swaddled in the pleasant irrelevance of the ivory tower.

It's rare that an idea goes from the ivory tower to think tanks to actual implementation by a democratically elected body to helping citizens.

Now, one can't unduly fault those academics who seek to avoid unpleasant public debates by swaddling themselves in the pleasant irrelevance of the ivory tower.

And, in the course of my research, I found that crossover ideas — those pieces of scholarship recognized by working educators — share a set of core characteristics that bridge the ivory tower and the schoolhouse.

The issue of teaching character, which until now has mainly been debated within the ivory towers of academia, is suddenly all the rage in policy circles in the UK, in the wake of the report by the All - Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on social mobility, and shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt's latest speech.

Cut off the head of the LA by all means, but to write off the rest as somehow not massively contributing to the operation of education is a monumental mistake and symptomatic of an ivory towers approach.

Instead I'm stonewalled and ignored by aloof «professionals» who'd rather stay in their ivory towers intellectualizing and complaining about the state of the publishing world things instead of making them better for everyone.»

And the real ones being hurt by this hard headed approach by the Big Five aren't the suits in their ivory towers but the authors and their readers.

Sociologists from their ivory towers tell us that by giving beggars money we will be causing them more harm than good.

Turkey's «Scientist of the Year,» as selected by a consortium of media groups, is no ivory - tower academic.

«Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.»

A clear insight into the ivory tower mindset of those employed long term in public academia and government — all graciously funded by John & Jane Q. Taxpayer.

I read that as saying that unless someone has lived on the island of ivory towers, they don't know enough to make a definitive statement about scientific malfeasance done by those that do live there.

The IPCC report is largely authored by unknown academics isolated in their ivory towers and lab technicians toiling over a hot Bunsen burner.

In the meantime though we've got to work on the problem of global warming alarmists being paid by the rest of us to do nothing more than gnash their teeth in the ivory towers.

Nobody likes to be lectured or hectored by people who come across as arrogant, elitist ivory - tower dwellers.

There is a growing disconnect between scientists who impact within the ivory tower, as measured by publications and citations, versus those scientists that are tweeting and blogging.

Although only a few decades old, listening to today's Conservatives one might think the Charter was crafted in some law school ivory tower and imposed by judicial fiat onto an unsuspecting Parliament.

All of which typically sends false dichotomies — theory - practice, «real world» - «ivory tower», Pericles - plumberPericles and the plumber [by] W. L. Twining.