Sentences with phrase «lost touch with nature»

To truth is, humans have lost touch with nature.

Tolkien's reference to «ancient shepherds» seems to carry with it an implicit criticism of «modern» and «urban»; that modern man, surrounded by concrete and reliant on mechanical devices, has lost touch with nature.

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Our modern society is so focused on working harder and longer, acquiring possessions and achieving titles that we often forget about and lose touch with our true nature — that wise, beautiful, loving and vibrant being within each of us.

Isn't that how the clear - cut depiction of the experiment at the outset of this film serves to define the nature of film where, in watching human beings act and react, we run the risk of losing touch with humanity?

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»