Sentences with phrase «not ivory tower»

It is good to know that the New York Times is not an ivory tower, it is a pillar in the community.

When it comes to getting a book contract, you need someone with experience to guide you — not ivory tower advice or theory.

This is not an ivory tower position that some people might take and look down at the people.

Not exact matches

We're a ground - up, not an ivory - tower - down, organization.

You don't want it to be dismissed as an ivory tower exercise.

But when you're not in the ivory tower anymore, you've got to get real, fast.»

Come down from the ivory towers and mingle with the masses, listen to them, you will be surprised how much you may learn about what works and what doesn't.»

«She wasn't an ivory - tower Fed chair even though she had all the credentials to be one,» said Diane Swonk, chief economist at accounting and advisory firm Grant Thornton.

Living our faith isn't something done from an ivory tower.

The community center is not a theoretical ivory tower where hairs are split lovingly, but is primarily a clinical setting where the delivery of specific services takes place.

An atheist is like a tick on the ass of a miscoscopic leech with it's head buried in a tick turd, living inside of the intestines of a ivory tower educator, standing up on his tiny little soap box and pretending that people don't exist.

It must speak not merely from ivory towers, but from the marketplace.

«There's sometimes this idea that theological institutions can be quite separate from people's real life and practice... I'm hoping to be part of an institution that's going to equip people for the real world, not be some ivory tower,» he says.

I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from others in my interpretations.

Also, I thought that the RCC were a museum, well - stocked with sour - faced elderly men in long flowing robes and eggshells on their heads, who lived in an ivory tower of contempt toward everyone who sought to enjoy life [No, that's NOT the whole truth.

We won't change our theologies locked up in our ivory towers, isolated from life, ghettoized in our agreeable clusters.

Several of the chapters were encouragement and insightful, but many of the other chapters seemed to have been written by ivory - tower scholars who do not seem to be aware of the sin and violence that lurks at the door of most people's daily existence.

You're saying, the only venting allowed is up to the point where it doesn't threaten your ivory tower.

Finally, it ought not to be thought that the utility of the perennial philosophy remains confined to the ivory tower of academia.

I don't get why these celebrities / athletes that are living in their ivory towers thing their opinions on our lives are more valid than their own.

They can't just be in their ivory tower,» agreed Assemblyman Joe Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn.

«I haven't been stuck in an ivory tower and because I can talk to people, I've been able to lead them.»

If Niblett's purpose was solely focused on ivory towers and navel - gazing Chatham House wouldn't get far.

It will not be an ivory tower.

Laugh if you must (Week 1 homework: convince someone to give you free Yankees tickets), but college professors tend to share with Paterson a certain remove from — if not to say bewilderment at — the cruel practicality of the world outside the ivory tower.

I - and I think Wheeler - want to vote Tory in the euro elections but if Cameron doesn't get out of his ivory tower soon, I'll vote UKIP (while holding my nose)

It would be wrong however to characterise this seat as being made up of academic quadrangles, ivory towers and Guardian reading students — most people here are not students.

The results don't just reveal the Wiki - habits of the ivory tower.

«This is not a time, if you care about the fate of the planet or of our republic, to retreat to the ivory tower,» said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, who also participated in the hour - long session hosted by AAAS on Jan. 26.

How Not to Succeed In Academia 04 February 2011 Kathy Weston A once - promising academic scientist tells how she ended up jumping out a window of the ivory tower before she was pushed.

These articles will help you thrive — and show you what mistakes to avoid — when you choose to deal with the world outside the ivory tower (and when you don't have any choice).

The professors aren't content with just having made it up into the ivory tower; they want to bring others along, as well.

In computer science, where it is not uncommon to move between academia and industry, his experience at Google probably will be an asset if he eventually chooses to return to the ivory tower.

And it wasn't just a case of sitting in the ivory tower and ignoring the rest of the world: We had regular visits to chemical plants in the area.

And, although he does not anticipate «a gush» of new positions, Goldin says academic job prospects for physicists are «looking better» than they have in recent lean years — not only because of faculty retirement but also because fewer physicists are choosing to remain in the ivory tower, meaning less competition for openings.

No one measures up to their expectations, so they get to be thoroughly fabulous, in the isolated ivory tower, looking down on a sea of flawed people, dating no one... (also not sexy...)

Scientists need not speak from their ivory towers, nor do they need to adopt the manipulative tactics of advertisers.

Ultimately, the restless movement here doesn't help the «classical» tracks connect to a non-specialized audience, but it does make for an inventive dialogue between the club and the ivory tower.

Jobless and broke, and certain that the ivory tower was not my calling, I applied late — and as a last resort — for a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctorate.

We're in an ivory tower; we don't have impact on legislation — it's very hard to do,» Gardner says.

This schoolwide application of multiple - intelligences (MI) theory to curriculum is not an ivory - tower exercise, say Enota educators.

Artificial Intelligence isn't locked away in ivory towers; it's available in programs that we can use in our working lives...

We have discovered that abstractionin education, while favored bythe ivory tower, doesn't really work thatwell for most kids.

Artificial Intelligence isn't locked away in ivory towers; it's available in programs that we can use in our working lives today.

Now, one can't unduly fault those academics who seek to avoid unpleasant public debates by swaddling themselves in the pleasant irrelevance of the ivory tower.

I commented at the forum that this broad - based alliance is essential, sinces separately we are accused of «fronting for the teachers» union» (parents), «not wanting to be held accountable» (teachers), «goofing off in school» (students) or «being out of touch in their ivory towers» (researchers)!

«For any educator, it's extremely important to not just be in the ivory tower of the district office, but to actually be visible on campus.»

Cut off the head of the LA by all means, but to write off the rest as somehow not massively contributing to the operation of education is a monumental mistake and symptomatic of an ivory towers approach.

That isn't going to come out of traditional publishing unless all the ivory towers suddenly collapse and someone crawls out of the rubble of the mail room to take over.

Some ivory tower gate keeper is not qualified to determine the value of the authors work.»