Sentences with phrase «intellectual habits of»

But we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking any of this readily touches the experience or intellectual habits of a majority.

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There is this moment when they understand the behaviors and habits needed to succeed, such as the importance of empathy, empowerment and intellectual curiosity.

In a similar fashion to the commonalities between the Investment Masters, I've recognised many commonalities that run through the habits, traits and character of these Intellectual Masters.

Moreover, those engaged in such conflicts do well to cultivate habits of irony and intellectual humility.

He points to the inadequacies in educational methods that focus on intellectual analysis and acquiring «formularized information»; he believes that educators who use these methods, «neglect to strengthen habits of concrete appreciation of the individual facts in their full interplay of emergent values» (SMW 198).

Nevertheless, we do have the material and intellectual resources to provide educational opportunities not only to prepare every person for occupational competence but also to foster habits of exploration, creation, and reflection as intrinsically valuable human activities.

Thus, Maritain argued, existing democratic institutions need to be grounded on a deeper, sounder foundation of intellectual conviction and moral habits than had been achieved in previous history.

The teacher's authority must be accepted on the basis of a community of a craft, which embodies the intellectual and moral habits we must acquire and cultivate if we are to become effective and creative participants in the craft.

Catholic Studies programs, Briel began, must be both intellectual and apostolic; they form both habits of the mind and habits of the soul, offering spiritual formation in concert with intellectual formation.

The bishop of Rome, claiming immediate jurisdiction over every local congregation and individual, was served by administrative personnel whose readiness to require intellectual obedience was unsustained by relevant theological or historical scholarship, or by a habit of explaining their disciplinary actions.

The neurological infrastructure is being formed that will support all of a child's future capacities, including not only her intellectual abilities — how to decipher and calculate and compare and infer — but also those emotional and psychological habits and abilities and mindsets that will enable her to negotiate life inside and outside school.

Indeed, web site after web site shows schools of education that list among their teacher - education program goals the inculcation of political views alongside intellectual curiosity and such work habits as punctuality.

The course of study at the Parker School, where the focus is on developing students» intellectual habits, runs narrower and deeper than the typical high school's.

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

They are part of a school learning web: an intellectual ecosystem that encompasses math facts and French vocabulary and the feeding habits of local flora and fauna.

A 21st century learner develops the following intellectual habits important in the work place: adapting to new situations and responding effectively to new information; critical thinking and solving problems; locating and evaluating information from a variety of sources; making flexible connection among various disciplines of thought; thinking logically and making informed judgments.

KIPP Austin College Prep offers a rigorous, college - prep curriculum with the goal of every student entering KIPP Austin Collegiate or KIPP Austin Brave with the necessary academic skills, intellectual habits, and character traits to be succeed in high school and thrive in college.

Graduates will have the knowledge, skills, and habits of mind necessary for intellectual growth, full and participatory citizenship, employability, and entrepreneurship in a changing environment.

And every year, as failing schools are shut down around González, a steady stream of children with poor intellectual habits and little family support continues to arrive at 223.

The assessment was based on multiple choice and directed response questions in these areas: civic knowledge, intellectual and participatory skills, and civic dispositions, or «habits of the heart,» as de Tocqueville called them.

I suspect it is a space cadet habit of assumed intellectual and moral superiority classically symptomatic of groupthink.

«The system of scholastic disputations encouraged in the Universities of the middle ages had unfortunately trained men to habits of indefinite argumentation, and they often preferred absurd and extravagant propositions, because greater still was required to maintain them; the end and object of such intellectual combats being victory and not truth.

(William M. Sullivan, et al., Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Jossey - Bass) 2007 (http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/) The study concludes that the dominant focus in law school on «thinking like a lawyer» gives lawyers powerful intellectual tools but also creates an unhealthy «conformity in outlook and habits of thoughts among legal graduates.»

It is hard to describe exactly, but I am thinking really of inculcating a mind - set or habits of thinking: approaching legal problems as a lawyer thinking about the practical needs of their client, as opposed to as an abstract, philosophical or intellectual problem.

The model is based on the assumption that significant problematic substance use and the behaviours often associated with it cause development to essentially «arrest» in many areas of the child's life, including emotional, social, academic (intellectual) and even physical development (consider the impact of poor nutrition, school dropout / disengagement, poor sleep habits, numbing of emotions and failure to engage in healthy relationships).