Sentences with phrase «inert ideas»

As early as 1917 he was protesting against a then - current model of students as portmanteaux, to be packed with «inert ideas,» which were then unpacked on occasions of external examinations3 (The contents, on that theory, were the mental images which have passed since Locke as «ideas» in the British empiricist tradition.)

Zest and interest are of more importance than dull truths or inert ideas.

The first trap is «inert ideas,» that is, «ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations» (AE 1 - 2).

Education becomes «the acquisition of the art of the utilization of knowledge,» and the pitfalls of inert ideas and the disconnection of subjects in a school curriculum are to be avoided.

Of course, the protest against inert ideas and a curriculum of disconnected subjects would be even more telling against an electronic image medium than against traditional school curricula, for the reasons Postman gives.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful — corruption optimi, pessima.

The reason is that they are over-laden with inert ideas.

Not exact matches

Neither can ideas themselves cause other ideas, for ideas are inert things.

When «an inert mass of fact and idea... is handed in small pieces by the teacher to the student then the heart of intellectual inquiry is betrayed».

But it was inert until books like Ernest Lee Tuveson's Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role (1968) appeared.

For example, one idea is to use a solid propellant to generate an inert gas mixture — an approach identical to the systems in car air bags.

We currently have little idea how even simple life could have evolved from inert chemicals, so we must not get...

The idea is because an inert pill, or «placebo» may be able to exert the effects of a drug, providing about 30 % benefit, according to some sources.

Haynes's cinematic approach to Wonderstruck is similar to those cabinets: This is a film that feels inert at times despite being crammed with ideas.

If there is little personal, concrete experience with which to connect, those abstractions become inert bits of data, unlikely to mobilize genuine interest or to generate comprehension of the objects and ideas they represent.

The idea was thus to turn a non-responsive and inert mass of disparate legal text and information into something connected together and that could be made responsive and even proactive to a person's needs, including suggesting new information that the user may be interested in.