Advocates of canonical
education view with dismay the decline over the last century in the «authority of tradition.»
Not exact matches
The program empowers «definite optimists,» but also highlights Thiel's
view that we are in an «
education bubble,» in which colleges saddle undergraduates
with needless debt by tricking them into thinking their degrees will be worth more than they really will be.
Educators and other start - up founders who believe in the value of
education obviously disagree
with this
view.
Add to that viral mix soul - stirring speeches about
education, inspiration, and revelation, and you have the stuff of the most - watched TED speeches of all time, the cream of the presentation crop
with millions upon millions of
views and growing.
She envisioned, marketed and scaled a comprehensive suite of programs and content from inception to becoming Canada's largest entrepreneurship
education provider
with live programs reaching tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and online resources
viewed by millions of people around the world.
She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated,
with strong
views about
education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.
Although military spouses are sometimes
viewed and stigmatized as homemakers
with minimal
education and little desire to work, the opposite seems to be true.
We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies
view early childhood
education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents
with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.
Clients
view us as strategic partners, and because
education, passion and learning are central to how we operate, we earn this trust
with clients.
Google recently reached an agreement
with the United National
Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to take pictures of world heritage sites for use in the Google Street
View service.
The freer a society,
with better
education, and the easier access to information and different
views is, the less religious it will become.
The Report refers to the book
Education of India by Arthur Mayhew, the Director of Public Instruction in Bengal with approval of his personal view that the «moral progress in India depends on the general transformation of education by explicit recognition of the Spirit of Chris
Education of India by Arthur Mayhew, the Director of Public Instruction in Bengal
with approval of his personal
view that the «moral progress in India depends on the general transformation of
education by explicit recognition of the Spirit of Chris
education by explicit recognition of the Spirit of Christ».
The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the
views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant
education system in which anything inconsistent
with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.
This is the point of
view of an elitist from the first world
with total disregard to the circu.mstances of lots and lots of people in much more difficult circ.umstances in the rest of the world who have neither the leisure time,
education, literacy, or resources to «study» any religion, let alone choose yours to study.
When one begins theorizing about
education from an organic, web - like
view of the world, one begins
with assumptions that the world is thoroughly interconnected, and one naturally seeks modes of communication which are themselves organic and web - like.
When one begins theorizing about
education from an organic
view of time, one begins
with assumptions that the present is intimately related
with the past and future, and one naturally seeks modes of communication in which the dynamic process of life can be
viewed through time.
Such a
view of the intellectual life is quite at odds
with one dominant nowadays among educators or theorists of
education.
From this point of
view, liberal
education may appropriately be concerned
with anything in the whole range of human experience.
This chapter deals
with religion as a particular facet of
education in a democracy, but more significant is the fact that all of the preceding chapters set forth a religious point of
view by demonstrating what the life of ultimate devotion means in a wide range of human concerns.
One study revealed that in a representative sample of 2,460 Americans, persons
with more
education were more likely to seek out a clergyman, and regular church members were also quicker to call on their pastor (54 percent among Protestants and 52 percent among Catholics)(Gerald Gurin, Americans
View Their Mental Health, p. 335.)
The Biblical fundamentlists» insecurity that causes them to reject science when it conflicts
with their world
view affects us all when they start pushing their unreality into our politics and
education.
So I thought I'd share
with you an excerpt of a talk I recently gave on dignity and higher
education: Today's «postmodern» professor of the humanities doesn't even claim to have a «wholistic»
view of the art of human life, although he or she often still....
In most contemporary
views of theological
education, the task of
education is to provide the individual
with some sense of ordered learning.
The basic institutional pattern of modern societies was laid down, in his
view, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries
with the emergence of a relatively autonomous political system which was accompanied by increasingly autonomous systems in other realms as well, such as science, law,
education, and art.
Too often the answer to this question is left implicit in proposals about the nature and purpose of theological
education, and the answer's coherence
with the
view of theology that the proposals adopt is left unexamined.
But in these lectures I will be emphasizing, from my Christian point of
view, what is wrong
with contemporary
education and the new form I would like to see higher
education take.
The range of concrete materials
with which the conference deals is suggested by the titles of the five sections into which the delegates were divided for simultaneous sessions of intensive discussion: «The Church and the Community» (meaning by «community» what the Germans mean by Volk, society in its larger units
viewed with reference to its cultural and racial coherence rather than its political organization); «Church and State»; «The Church and the Economic Order»; «Church, Community and State in Relation to
Education»; «The Universal Church and the World of Nations.»
Ask the
education committee and teachers to review the church school literature
with a
view to eliminating whatever sexism it contains.
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Waldorf Elementary Music Teacher
Education at Sunbridge Institute is a 3 - week intensive designed to provide Waldorf grades 1 - 8 music teachers
with an informed understanding of the Waldorf curriculum and the anthroposophical
view of child development.
In my
view, they should be furious about what NCLB is doing to public
education, and should be leading the charge against it, not least because they are tasked
with carrying out some of its worst features.
A classical soprano
with an MFA in Theatre
Education / Outreach and Dramatic writing, she started her blog because having a family gave her a point of
view as a cook, and being a mother (to boys, ages 2 & 5, one
with sensory - motor problems) made her even more eager to learn about food systems and how the stuff we eat affects little people's bodies and brains.
Various experiments
with education reform tend to confirm my fatalistic
view.
Paul Tough discusses how «non-cognitive skills» — qualities like tenacity, resilience, impulse control — are being
viewed as increasingly vital in
education, and Ira speaks
with economist James Heckman, who's been at the center of this research and this shift.
We invite you to
view this presentation and share this
education with your colleagues.
Depression has been associated
with negative
views of parenting and limited knowledge of child development.18 In the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project, 6 depressed mothers showed deficits in mother - child interaction and in obtaining
education and job goals relative to those without depression.
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The group's original mission statement read: «To provide a medium through which parliamentarians and organisations
with an interest in religious
education can discuss the current provision of religious
education, press for continuous improvement, promote public understanding and advocate rigorous
education for every young person in religious and non-religious world
views.»
«Tomorrow, armed
with the provisions of the
Education and Adoption Bill, the Government will use these statements as the justification to ride roughshod over the
views of parents and local communities and embark on a programme of academisation.
The ways we engage
with our friends, the preferences and hostilities we harbour, the
views we have about teachers, parents,
education, or people from other ethnic groups — however loosely held — can easily be «excavated» by the student of ideologies, who can then identify, classify and maybe even anticipate the ideas and behaviour people display in their roles as members of a society.
In current circumstances, though, the State
Education Commissioner, John King, seems in agreement
with some of Governor Cuomo's
views.
That
view was simply swept aside
with the trite «simply returning to the old local
education authorities was not an option».
In a welcoming address, the vice chairman of the homeland study group, Mr Gotthold Yao Agra, said the Western Togoland was clandestinely removed at all levels of
education in Ghana
with the
view to creating a vacuum that will consume the identity as a state among United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other international organisations.
I utterly reject the
view of higher
education as for purely personal benefit: as a complex society we need those skilled in abstract problem - solving and
with specialist knowledge.
Education is not an industry for profit and yet we hear of Michael Gove's view that there is nothing wrong with making a profit out of e
Education is not an industry for profit and yet we hear of Michael Gove's
view that there is nothing wrong
with making a profit out of
educationeducation.
Or Lord Adonis, whose
views on
education and transport (the two ministries in which he has served) chime
with the Conservative leadership (just today he was promoting high speed rail in The Times).
Voters also took a dim
view of the Common Core,
with only 19 % saying it has improved public
education and 40 % saying it things worse, the poll found.
Tony's stance on key issues such as job creation (bringing jobs back to the New York State), access to affordable and quality health care for all, improving the quality of
education for students, and holding state officials accountable for how they spend taxpayers» money is aligned
with the Coalition's point of
views.
With this in
view, during my term in office, I began the single largest programme for expansion of secondary
education in Ghana.