Sentences with phrase «foundational knowledge over»

While the role of education is to give students a broad and foundational knowledge over a wide range of subjects, it is equally important for young people to be aware of and develop their unique strengths.

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Foundational knowledge is built incrementally over the course of many layers, starting with the very basics and building higher to advanced topics.

And if students react to seemingly irrelevant print lessons by failing to internalize foundational concepts, then they will likely revert to old research habits when they inevitably gravitate back to electronic sources to do their actual research.88 In other words, if the process doesn't carry over to the media they're actually willing to use, then they are far less likely to actually learn the fundamental, foundational concepts that are so critical to good legal research.89 Instead, they may achieve mere «inert» knowledge: «the inability to apply skills and concepts in situations other than those in which they were originally learned.»