Sentences with phrase «n't teach character»

The solution, he suggests, does not lie in explicitly teaching children character skills: you can't teach character the way you teach math or reading.

Maybe you can't teach character the way you teach math.

«You can't teach character by just telling kids to be more confident or self - assured or have more intellectual courage,» Berger told me.

Not exact matches

I can not escape the conclusion that you will come out convinced that, both in general and in detail, the ethics of the Bible, from the Ten Commandments to the character and teaching of Christ, meet the test.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

So, it is Christ his life, example, character and teaching who is our guide and our primary lens, not only for biblical interpretation but for doing life.

So if what Jesus said to Philip can't be used to teach us about the nature and character of God because it's historical narrative, then this same argument applies to every text in the Bible, and you can also not use anything from the Law, the Writings, the Prophets, the Gospels, or the Epistles.

So if what Jesus said to Philip can't be used to teach us about the nature and character of God because it's historical narrative.

I think we will soon see that schools in which professors are not fully committed to teaching and the life of the mind do not form the characters or intellects of students and may not be effective even in imparting technical skills.

There's just no way, it doesn't sit right with everything else the Bible teaches us about the character of God (grace, love, compassion, etc.).

Jojo, real intelligent adults do nt beleive in made up characters that taught us 2000 years ago that our private parts are dirty and self pleasure is some sort of sin.

Carl, I teach my children that these fairy tale characters are not real.

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

Luke had been at pains to make clear that the risen Jesus was no otherworldly spirit but a physical form with flesh and bones, 42 who consequently presented his disciples with infallible proofs.41 The risen Christ came to be regarded as having conducted a fresh ministry with his disciples, and in these forty days he «taught them about the kingdom of God».41 But since the experience of the risen Christ was not of this character at the end of the century when Acts was written, it had to be made clear that this kind of experience was brought to an end by a new event, the Ascension.

The historical problem presented by the Gospels is, then, not the problem of determining whether the character of the early Christians, their faith, and the exigencies of their life and work have colored and overlaid the facts of Jesus» teaching and life, but is, rather, the problem of determining just how we should use our knowledge of this fact in our efforts to get back to the so - called historical Jesus» own words and life.

I would reject as uncalled for and unsound the skepticism of those scholars who hold that we have no trustworthy indications whatever as to the character, the teaching and the career of Jesus of Nazareth, but I would be inclined to agree that there are not many particular points where we can feel absolute assurance, We can be sure that Jesus said a certain kind of thing, but not that he said just this thing or that.

I think we know there are scribal errors in this bible of ours (no doubt from me)-- but I am yet to find a scribal error that changes the character of Jesus from what he claims to be to someone altogether different (ie: not the son of David or from Nazareth or hates Gentiles, etc) or changes his teachings from one thing to another (ie: we don't catch him stoning someone in adultery anywhere or cursing the roman guards for crucifying him).

It's a teaching — a comparison to something not that flattering and calling to question the character and focus of the people he's addressing.

With all the magnificence of its imagery and the splendour of its visions of the majesty of God and the world to come, we are bound to judge that in its conception of the character of God and His attitude to man the book falls below the level, not only of the teaching of Jesus, but of the best parts of the Old Testament.

For the church was created around a person, not a teaching; and historically the greatest value attaching to Jesus» words is that they indicate so much as to his own character.

Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: Moral Illiteracy and the Case for Character Education by William Kilpatrick Simon & Schuster, 336 pages, $ 23 Reclaiming Our Schools: A Handbook on Teaching Character, Academics, and Discipline by Edward A. Wynne and Kevin Ryan foreword by James S. Coleman....

And in the course of that inquiry they quickly discover that education is so closely connected with the life of a community that queries about the aims of teaching and learning can not be answered unless ideas about the character and the purposes of the society in which it is carried on are clarified first of all.

In our brief discussion of the teaching of Jesus I more than once referred to the exalted terms in which he described the righteous will of God and to the utterly uncompromising way in which he interpreted God's demands; and earlier in this chapter I pointed out that this teaching throws light not only on Jesus» ideas but upon his character.

«Reality», for Panikkar, is the wholeness of Being that is constituted through God, Man and World, not the empirical reality which is of merely provisional character — as is maya in advaita - vedanta.60 Probably under pressure from the impact of Liberation Theology in the USA where Panikkar was teaching at the time, he had to face the issue of the political dimension of his theology and has reacted to it repeatedly in prefaces to his publications.

Frances and Derek Baars were never taught to believe in characters like the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, so they didn't teach the 3 - and 4 - year - old in their care about them either.

I'm very fortunate that my parents taught me that intolerance is a character flaw instead of telling me not to trust black people or something stupid like that.

Sometimes God asks us to do things, not necessarily because he wants them done, but because he wants to first and foremost work on our heart, and teach us something about him and his character.

This principle of discontinuity, as it is often called, does not presuppose that Jesus was never in agreement with the Jews of his day or that his character and doctrine were generally out of phase with the teaching of the early Church, but simply that it is more difficult to account for dissimilar statements as originating from sources other than Jesus himself.

With the exquisite literary attentiveness characteristic of the best recent work in theological exegesis, Sacks shows us that each of these narratives harbors a counter-narrative, which teaches us to sympathize with the character who is not God's elect or chosen one.

He already has the sacred character of a Bishop but until he comes into hierarchical communion with the Pope the full possibility of this is not brought to fulfilment: he can not share in the definitely guaranteed ability to teach granted by Christ to the College of Bishops.

if your such a idiot as to fellow the teaching of a fictional character, then you don't deserve good sex PERIOD.

(p. 27 and cf. p67) It is not clear whether, in the dialectic between subject and «community with ecclesial character», when say papal teaching does not «speak to me», there is a place for Vatican II's call for the human subject to offer a «religious assent... of mind and will... according to (the Pope's) manifest mind and will» (Lumen Gentium, 25).

At its core is a notion that is electrifying in its originality and its optimism: that character — not cognition — is central to success, and that character can be taught.

Our camps not only teach kids how to embody characters and act out stories, they also help them to gain confidence, express themselves, and work patiently and respectfully with each other.

But I think there is something very effective about framing character as not about values — I'm not saying that values don't matter — but instead that what schools are good at teaching, and what they're designed to teach, is the skills kids need to do well in life.

But as he came to appreciate that «the teaching paradigm might be the wrong one» he thought about how Spiegal did not try to teach grit or character, but rather «she only talked to her students about chess.»

The premise behind this kind of character teaching is not that we should be teaching a whole different dimension of human existence, but that we've been leaving out some very important skills in terms of what makes kids happy and productive and fulfilled.

I have heard it said that like most character traits it is «taught, not caught.»

And although the Character Counts program is taught in some schools, basic morality (NOT religion, but right / wrong) is often avoided, for the fear that toes may be stepped on.

His premise is that character, or «noncognitive» traits, are not skills as such, and thus can't be taught directly, but rather traits that are formed by environment and being engaged in relevant and rigorous tasks.

While much of what the book asserts is reassuring — standardized test scores are not determinant; IQ isn't all - important; character can be taught — none of it is easy.

A former Education minister she feels strongly about the subject which she writes about in Taught Not Caught Educating for the 20th Century Character (John Catt Educational).

The former education secretary will draw on her two years in the senior cabinet job for a new title called Taught, Not Caught: Educating for 21st Century Character.

They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselvesEven though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets ™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.

It's not clear where he teaches or whether he has the ursine equivalent of tenure and its associated hibernation sabbaticals, but one thing is for sure: Like many similar characters in popular media, he perpetuates the outdated, stodgy stereotypes of a professor.

Too often, faculty use teaching methods that do not match the cutting - edge character of their biological research, said Terry Woodin, a program director in NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education.

With such an eclectic cast there is a lot to enjoy for everyone, but this isn't exactly a character study or something to teach in film school and with the end product being what it is, that's alright with me.

Roger's long dark night of the soul reveals a character whose deep flaws prove that those who can't, teach, making him compulsively watchable and excruciatingly entertaining.

«I don't understand people that see a distance between themselves and characters like [American Buffalo «s] Teach or Ratso Rizzo or what we call the fringe of society or the losers of society or the gutter heap or the lowlife.»

I think the character taught me a lot about relationships: Sometimes you got ta work through the hard stuff and sometimes two people grow apart, and that's the harsh reality, that's what love is sometimes... knowing when it's time to let something go, just realizing something's not working.