Sentences with phrase «on school traditions»

University of Notre Dame students become part of a storied history, where carrying on school traditions is a built - in part of the experience: Pep rallies, homemade - boat races, and masses at chapel are among the activities available during students» four years on campus.

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However, built on an innovation out of the private school tradition, a lot of high growth will come, he says.

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

There are two main schools of thought on how to determine which variant is the right one, but both approaches use a tradition that has developed over time.

whatever a school's commitment to a particular theological tradition may mean, therefore, insofar as it is a school, it can not entail restrictions on the freedom of teachers and learners to differ and be in error.

It is an integral part of every tradition of Christian schooling, whether that tradition is on the road from Nicaea or Trent or Augsburg (or Geneva, or Northampton, etc.).

There has also been a deliberate attempt to develop our particular situation into a strong culture for the College, mainly rooted in traditions that staff experienced in their own schools a generation ago, or in revivals of medieval traditions, such as that of the boy - bishop (a boy rules the College for a day on the feast of St Nicholas.)

Recently the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary's school of world mission called on «Christians in all traditions to reinstate the work of Jewish evangelism in their missionary obedience.»

A third trend in the postliberal school takes a very different tack, arguing that postliberal theology as a whole is overly preoccupied with epistemological debates and is too much focused on conserving tradition.

Lindbeck's «experiential - expressivist» model does a reasonably good job of accounting for the romantic and mystical streams of liberal theology, but it does not account for variants of liberal theology that make gospel - centered claims (such as the tradition of evangelical» liberalism), that base their affirmations on metaphysical arguments (such as the Whiteheadian process school) or that appeal to gospel norms and metaphysical arguments (such as the Boston personalist school).

One can almost sense on the screen the influence of childhood classrooms in a Roman Catholic school (where Scorsese was educated) or in a Dutch Calvinist Sunday school (Schrader's Reformed tradition) in which well - intentioned teachers instilled in two little future filmmakers the idea that Jesus resisted temptation because he was God — so if you don't want to spend eternity in hell, you had better follow Jesus.

Guides were published about how to treat religious holidays in the schools, how to teach students about religious traditions, and how to create equal access for organizations, including religious clubs on campus.

So I don't doubt that Yale Law School has taken notice of the Catholic tradition of legal and social teaching, the tradition that five sitting justices have explicitly acknowledged as important in their own thinking» even to the point of reading Pope Benedict XVI, giving a seminar on Catholic social thought, and (imagine!)

Liberal Catholicism has many mansions, and depending on how the term is used, it can sweep in everything from worldly prep schools «in the Jesuit tradition» to passionately ascetic Catholic Worker houses, everyone from the all - but - lapsed Catholic who shows up at Mass twice a year to the devout Catholic who attends every Sunday but felt glad for his gay nephew when the Supreme Court ruled for same - sex marriage.

Moreover, Oregon has a long - standing tradition of anti-Catholicism, harking back to strong Ku Klux Klan activities earlier in the century, as well as pre-World War II efforts to prevent religious (especially Catholic) schools from operating, a movement that failed only on appeal to the Supreme Court.

No other approach to an educational problem seems possible, since a school is never separable from the community in which it works, whose living tradition it carries on, into which it sends citizens and leaders imbued with that tradition and committed to the social values.

How well are the churches addressing the tensions felt in the minds of many educated Christians who internally hear two choruses: on the one hand, the voices of their pastor and Sunday school, the scriptures and tradition; on the other, the voices of their high school science teacher, their college biology professor and the science section of the New York Times?

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Perry said Obama and the political left were waging a «war on religious traditions,» including preventing students from praying in schools and having Christmas parties.

A church - state conflict arises when government adopts a policy that has the effect of restricting freedom of conscience or of imposing on all a policy essentially based on the ethos of a particular religious tradition (example: a law outlawing contraception or mandating devotion to Mary in a public school).

The Witherspoon Institute (where I direct the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution) is now accepting applications for the following seminars: Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle,....

[4] If a theological school wants more truly to understand God, surely it would be better — to make a counterproposal — to focus its study on that greater tradition than on individual congregations within it.

The more intensely a school identifies with such a tradition, the more deeply the tradition's commitments on these matters will shape the school's ethos.

The choice among these various schools of commentary on the Qur» an and Sunnah depends on one's attitude with respect to three basic issues: the credence to be attached to historical tradition; the weight to be given to the claim for a hidden meaning in the Qur» an; the amount of subjectivity to be allowed in interpretation.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

Maliki — one of the four schools of law of Islam, based on the interpretations of the Traditions by Malik Ibn Anas (died 179; A.D. 795); found chiefly in North and West Africa and in Egypt.

Since my husband went to the school that makes a tradition out of everything, I felt that I had to proudly carry on that tradition but put my own spin on it.

I thought of all the street vendors in Mexico that gather around the local schools and sell fresh fruit cups and all assortments of vegetables - on - a-stick as after school snacks (a tradition I'm highly jealous of, btw).

Building on over 100 years of tradition, the college provides career - focused training to aspiring cooking school students who want a creative future that's anything but ordinary.

Old - school joints are finally getting their due, and new - school smokehouses — like Buxton Hall — are proudly carrying on the tradition while shaking things up a little.

Gonzaga is by far the top program out west right now no they don't have our tradition and are in sorry conference but their on court performances of late have by far been best of the western schools.

On the other side of the ball the San Mateo Bearcats have great tradition as a long line of great Tongan running backs came from this school.

And finally, there's just the random nature of life, and some schools somehow have a tradition of cross country participation that just keeps rolling on — and other schools don't.

As I reflect on my Cowboys» wrestling experience, I am honored to be a part of a fifty plus year tradition at Livermore High School.

The Bulldogs, a school with a winning and proud tradition, are far from a perfect team, and Aaron Hern — 5 foot, 11 inches, 160 pounds and possessing an average arm and speed — won't be on the home page of any recruiting websites.

As it says immediately on the front page of the school's web site: «As Redskins, we are a part of a long and proud tradition dating back to 1890.»

Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.

This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.

It's a tradition that I plan on keeping up until he learns to roll his eyes at me, which I'm hoping is at least through elementary school.

Several of the winners of the Young Birder award this year are in elementary school, continuing the strong tradition of young birder participation in the Mass Audubon Bird - a-thon — they are to be congratulated on their efforts and interest in the natural world.

Begin a new school tradition — such as going out for ice cream on the first day of school or going back to school shopping together

This year her birthday fell on a school day, followed by Girl Scouts which meant she was doing her own thing all day and even forwent the annual tradition of the Walk Around Sun at school — a Montessori thing stories and photos are shared by the parents which the child walks around the sun one year for each year they have been on the planet.

Since starting TLT in 2010, I've made it a tradition to post just before Thanksgiving on the topic that's at the heart of my interest in school food reform: childhood hunger.

Last week was Sausage's school disco and it's kind of a tradition that I always go along and help out, usually on the stall which sells all the novelty neon crap that the kids absolutely lap up.

There * is * a growing problem of overweight kids and adults in HK, but I think it tends to be on the salty - fatty spectrum of foods & portion control, rather than kids bringing in cup - cakes to school (which is not a tradition here).

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We have some simple traditions we've started on the day before school resumes to prepare for the big day.

I just did a post on «First Day of School» traditions!

The books were started because of a tradition at their Montessori school where the child does a Walk around the Sun on their birthday and the teacher shows photos and tells stories about their life, separated by years as they take one walk around the sun for each year of their life.

Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration broke with the longstanding tradition of providing school districts across New York State with «runs,» the projected aid increases, based on the governor's education funding proposal, which district officials use to help shape their own budgets.

But even that school, like other public schools back then, was run as a «secular» school, hinged on Euro - Christian tradition!