Sentences with phrase «own intellectual habits»

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

Yet Israel's thinkers by and through their own intellectual habits turned their inquisitive eyes backward upon themselves to inquire how their minds behaved.

As these disputes become intolerable, social structures and intellectual habits will emerge that devalue the subject matter under dispute, first Scripture and doctrine, and then eventually religion itself.

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.

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.

KIPP LA's mission is to teach the academic skills, foster the intellectual habits, and cultivate the character traits needed for our students to thrive in school, college, and life.

In order to develop their academic skills, intellectual habits, and character traits, our students engage in rigorous courses, explicitly learn intellectual habits such as independent reading, and participate in service projects.

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.

Well qualified students and families have a desire to develop character, persistence, and resilience, in addition to high - level academic and intellectual habits and skills in multi-age learning communities.

Our academic program enables students to develop and practice intellectual habits, to build academic skills, and to cultivate character traits necessary to thrive in, and graduate from, four year colleges and universities.

That means you have to give your new intellectual habit at least two months in order to have it really take root in your relationship.

Not exact matches

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).

Everything worth while in the intellectual or moral life must be bought and paid for by giving up irreconcilable habits and indulgences.

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.

Intellectual forms, then, are spiritual habits.

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.

I wonder, though, how completely these apostates have rooted out their previous intellectual, cultural, and moral habits.

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.

Research tells us that children need emotional support, parental supervision, adequate sleep, healthy eating habits, physical and intellectual challenges, resilience, and time to reflect, play, and plan.

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.

Traits like self - control, optimism, intellectual curiosity, emotional intelligence, and conscientiousness — habits that will cause them to turn off the TV because they have a test the next day or complete a college application without needing reminders from others or having the belief system that working hard will positively impact their life.

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.

She was demanding and exacting in her intellectual work and had no interest in compromising to rules or habits simply because others followed them.

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.

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.

We graduate diverse learners and leaders who demonstrate the intellectual, social, and ethical habits to improve their communities.

We envision an educational system that equips all students with the intellectual, emotional, and social habits and skills to become powerful and informed citizens who contribute actively toward a democratic and equitable society.

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).