Sentences with phrase «school was a good experience»

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«This implies that the comparatively low degree of emotional support business undergraduates appear to receive in school has lasting consequences, as Gallup has established that there are differences in well - being and employee engagement among alumni who have had these experiences.»

As she and her husband struggle to find the best school for their daughter, «I worry about the experiences she'll have early in her life on the other side of town where the parks are picturesque and pristine and none of the other kids have beads and braids like her, and how that might impact her culturally.»

Aside from a desire to serve and an openness to new ideas and experiences, the 2016 best and brightest EMBAs were further united by their appreciation of business school.

As a small business owner, you may think that hiring someone fresh out of college — maybe even fresh out of high school — could be a good change of pace for a position that normally requires a few years of experience.

Schools receive points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 % average GMAT scores (higher is better), 13 % tuition (lower is better), 13 % required work experience (more is better) and 7 % program length (shorter is better).

«You would think that common sense would dictate that we choose someone who is well versed in business and has experience running a company for president,» said Barbara Kellerman, a James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Forget about business school: With the unlimited resources available today, it's possible to learn anything — and experience is truly the best teacher.

Sauder, which is currently the highest ranked school in North America for the international mobility of its graduates, according to the Financial Times, emphasizes the importance of global experience through its course content, as well as the support services it provides to students and graduates seeking work outside of Canada.

The researchers, all business school professors out of Columbia University, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago, set up a mock hiring experience in which managers were asked to select which job «applicants» they thought would perform best at a math task.

«In an effort to continue his memory, this scholarship is being created to help other students experience the joys of music as well as fund increased security at schools.

In a recent Kauffman Founders School video my Inc.com colleague Meg Cadoux Hirschberg (who has been married to an entrepreneur for 30 years) offers an analogy for what the entrepreneurship experience is probably like for your better half.

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

Founder Charles Best combines his own experiences as a public school teacher in the Bronx with data and analytics savvy that's straight out of Silicon Valley.

Their art - school background ended up being an asset that helped set them apart from competitors (better user interface), along with a perfect wave of external factors including timing, price, and a shift in consumer preferences towards artisanal experiences.

The best way to experience the Rotman School of Management is to see it for yourself.

It is far better to have a mentoring experience than develops your spirituality than a prestigious divinity school where your faith falls apart.

«What I remember best,» recalls Freedman now, «is that Marty never talked down to me, never made me feel like a high school student, but instead treated me as an adult» as a pro» and the experience resonated: to this day, I have a professional confidence that I never would have obtained without him.»

Jeremy, I'm need a good school that truly teaches and you experience God's breathe words.

Beyond the obvious question of how well the school actually can assess relevant background knowledge and experience is the fact that the system does not take into account other worthy commitments in a student's life, like work or ministry responsibilities outside the school.

Yet, there is considerable mystery in the way any personality is formed through various cultural experiences that include church, schools, and media, as well as family.

If a person went to school and got a degree from say, BC, and it's well known that they are jesuit and don't believe in birth control, all the hospital needs to do is reject them based on experience and not religion and they'll find a more qualified candidate for the job.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

A society in which married couples are expected to be faithful to their marital vows «for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health» is a society that assumes all people, regardless of class, can experience marriage as a «school of love»» no matter what economic hardships may confront them.

Professional schools would then be structured to socialize students into the ethos and the responsibilities of the profession as well as to provide the information and experience that are required for carrying out the expected social role.

To make matters even worse, those who have experience working in Catholic schools are often at a disadvantage when compared to other applicants for well - paying public school positions.

The two schools of philosophical thought represented on this occasion were Epicureanism and Stoicism: the former, discounting reason and advancing pleasure through experience, or self - satisfaction at the highest and noblest human level, as the true impetus for living; and the latter, exalting human indifference, or submission to the exigencies of existence through rigid self - discipline, treating with sublime disregard good fortune and bad fortune alike.

Staying positive has been tough and I'm experiencing some post-holiday blues regarding the weather, the back injury issue, as well as it being crunch time at school for testing.

Neumark is the founder of The Sylvia Center, which holds year - round programs in schools and New York City Housing Authority community centers to inspire young people and their families to eat well through hands - on learning experiences on the farm and in the kitchen.

From rowdy beer bar to old - school elegance, these are Louisville's seven best bars for experiencing all the Derby weekend madness.

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This isn't me thinking Nojel is good enough to get drafted but I think Painter adding another experienced guard who is in direct competition with Nojel may push his mom over the edge and the Eastern family may feel his best decision is to try his hand going the undrafted route or transferring to another school.

Over the year there are three 10 week courses to coincide with Dubai's school terms and the experience is made even better by frequent visits from current Arsenal first team players.

Speaking from my OWN experience, if you're a good player, there are such a thing as regional scouts that do small school scouting.

Experience comes into play not just in terms of what happens on the court, but in being familiar with the other gyms in the league, with how to handle a two - hour bus ride, with the best way to keep up on homework, with how to set the inevitable high school drama aside when it's time to play.

Ask them if they had a good experience, and they will remember — and if they're hampered still by a high school injury, you can bet they will remember that more than anything.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

«Positive Coaching Alliance is a national non-profit developing «Better Athletes, Better People» by working to provide all youth and high school athletes a positive, character - building youth sports experience.»

We can talk about the wide diversity of schools and that there are good «fits» for different kids in terms of campus size, academic structure and content, geography, and experiences offered.

The subject of which has better coaches: private or public school always seems to spark some petty good debate but my experience and insight into the differences between private and public school sports is a subject that I have spent some time studying for the last year, and I have made some really profound discoveries.

Marianne is a highly experienced, trained Waldorf teacher with over 35 years of teaching experience in public and private Waldorf schools as well as experience as a Spanish - bilingual teacher in New York.

Our school is best understood and experienced in person.

John Vincent writes about his experience of school food in the 70s and 80s and reflects on how much better school food is today: I was at school in the 1970s and 1980s.

John Vincent writes about his experience of school food in the 70s and 80s and reflects on how much better school food is today:

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Fathers will undertake learning activities that they perceive will benefit their children through: ««a desire to build stronger relationships with their children ««a belief that helping their children to learn is important for their children's success (even when their own school experience was poor) ««a strong desire for their children to do better than they did (Fletcher, 1997).

Using the experience we have from gardening as well as the gardening club I used to run at a school I taught I'm putting together resources for parents and teachers on Gardening with Kids.

OK, I am not a Lawyer, nor am I a doctor — I do not have much, well no school lunch reform experience.

There are a lot of methods that we use that don't work well in group classes, like one - on - one discussion, hands - on activities, more field trips, special interest projects, etc. and some of their methods don't work well for home schooling, like lectures and extensive workbook work (especially for the younger children, under grades 5 or 6, where hands - on experience is what they remember).

Our children look forward to school each day as they experience a well - organized, creative, unhurried, and age - appropriate curriculum that is part of the rich tradition of Waldorf.