Sentences with phrase «systems thinker from»
Peter Senge, the brilliant systems thinker from MIT and author of Schools that Learn, observed: «Aspiration does not come easily in most -LSB-...]
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According to The New York Times, Steve Jobs had an «inexhaustible interest» in William Blake; Nike founder Phil Knight so reveres his library that in it you have to take off your shoes and bow; and Harman Industries founder Sidney Harman called poets «the original systems thinkers,» quoting freely from Shakespeare and Tennyson.
However, whereas progressive Christianity interprets this to mean that the church must remain aloof from involvement with political parties and economic interests, the fourth church, at the urging of its forceful thinkers, supports the best systems available.
Spinoza is often thought to be the most abstract of thinkers, the one most successful in expelling figurative and metaphorical concepts from his system.
According to Jean Bodin, an eminent Renaissance thinker whose thought in this regard has only recently been recovered from obscurity, held that there is harmony in numbers, harmony in geometric progression, harmony in musical systems, and harmony in nature.
Having «done» the Universe, the author then gives us a quick tour of the Solar System (with pictures), discusses the origins and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility of life elsewhere, and rounds things off with extracts from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen Hawking, and comparable cosmological thinkers.
Yet our policies in recent years are moving us away from that creative culture of learning toward a system that produces compliant, conventional thinkers seeking the one right answer.
Proposals for enormous changes in the school system have always been a feature during times of economic crisis, but you have to stop and catch your breath at times when some of the more «throw the baby out with the bathwater» schemes get a serious airing from our self - appointed «out of the box» thinkers on education «reform,» or, as one of our local school board candidates would prefer, «transformation.»
We tend to be independent thinkers and drop - outs from various belief systems.
Green thinkers as optimistic as Paul Hawken have told me that they see meaningful action on climate coming only after a big shock to the system from nature.