Sentences with phrase «precedence over their learning»

One's views on schools are closely related to larger values — what it means to live the «good life,» the degree to which children should be raised to pursue their own individual aspirations versus contribute to a larger community, whether learning «right from wrong» takes precedence over learning to «value diversity,» and on and on.

While the new teacher worked to improve her practice over those first few months of the school year, Lujan explained, students» safety took precedence over their learning goals.

So wanting to do it tends to take precedence over learning how to do it first.

Not exact matches

The danger in any society — and ours is no exception — is that the use of higher learning to serve existing social patterns will take precedence over the critical and innovative functions.

Before a group of rabbis he once gave learned arguments for the precedence of the Passover over the Sabbath when Passover fell on a Sabbath day.

Once he was incarcerated, however, survival skills took precedence over book learning.

Schools and curriculum are often organised by Knowledge Learning Areas (KLA's) and politicians and education authorities create a hierarchy of knowledge giving precedence to some areas over others — such as numeracy and literacy.

You will learn what is most important in life and things such as your health and welfare will take precedence over electronic gadgets that are more likely than not harming your health in one way or another.

As a corollary to this I learned that identification has precedence over evaluation — that the standard of objectivity is primary and the standard of value derivative, or to put this in somewhat more general terms, the normativity involved in epistemology is more fundamental than any normativity that arises in relation to ethics.