Sentences with phrase «studying classical texts»

Americans are usually amazed to discover that Derrida was often criticized in France as too conservative because of his insistence on studying classical texts.

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A team member and Bhutanese historian, Karma Phuntsho of the Shejun Agency for Bhutan's Cultural Documentation and Research in Thimphu, studied original historical texts — including biographies of monks — written in Classical Tibetan.
On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»
«Forming his academic identity» while studying at the University of Chicago, Shulman honed his analytical skills by «wrestling» with classical Greek literature and Jewish texts.
Most of those were selective - enrollment schools in CPS, including Skinner North Classical School, where, on a recent day this month, fifth - graders were working on sixth - grade material in social studies, weaving in the literacy goals and nonfiction text of the Common Core standards.
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This well - rounded training from a knowledgeable and talented team emphasizes the elements of classical yoga, including study of the ancient texts, yoga history and theory, and asana (postures), pranayama (breath energy), and meditation.
Those who had studied classical Greek texts could read the calculations performed that showed that the Earth was a much larger sphere than the one Columbus had concluded.
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