Sentences with phrase «teaching you history rather»

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Really if you look at the history or religion it teaches and promotes separation and difference rather than being one man under God.

Outlining as such has enjoyed too much prominence in the history of preaching and of teaching homiletics, obviously for the reason that a sermon has been viewed as a rational discourse rather than as a community event.

The teaching of church history is sometimes made the occasion for developing a sense of alienation from other groups rather than for developing a sense of unity.

(5) Although the history of Christianity is replete with instances of the use of violence, and although this violence has often been employed for destruction of the enemy rather than reconciliation, dominant Christian teaching has nevertheless encouraged respect for the human integrity and worth of all people and has viewed violence against persons as undesirable.

History teaches us that reformers must embrace achievable opportunities where they can, rather than pursue overambitious goals that can not be met.

Though often mistaken as one man's prescription for what should be taught in school, Cultural Literacy was a pioneering study of the history of education theory as applied in our schools — and it came to the rather damning conclusion that those schools had wrongly forsaken the importance of transmitting knowledge in the classroom; the academic failures were not the result of moral or character imperfections but of knowledge deficits.

Also, because Civilization III teaches the underlying principles behind history, rather than names and dates, it didn't do much to help teachers prepare students for testing.

As one middle school social studies teacher told the RFA researchers: «It has made me focus more on the [literacy] side of teaching rather than just history.

Chris Skidmore, MP and vice-chairman of the committee, told BBC News he believed in taking a chronological approach to teaching «rather than what I would call Doctor Who - style history».

For example, at Bridgemary, which serves a distressed community with a history of low school achievement, pupils are grouped and taught by ability rather than by age.

It was only later, after I began to teach it and decided that I was going to keep on teaching in order to support my art writing, that I thought I'd better get a Ph.D. in art history, which I did rather late in life.

Rather I'm inclined to refer you to some thorough studies in climate history, that teach us how Australian navigators sailed over southern latitudes a century ago that had been charted as land two centuries ago when they were still frozen over.

With its surprising subsequent history taught as part of the case, Cooper works better as a demonstration of how complex the constitutional system can be, rather than as a demonstration of the supremacy of judicial interpretation.

We're not saying that there isn't a desperate need for more judges and court staff, but rather that history has taught us that adding personnel, although it may have an immediate impact on delays, will have diminishing results as time goes by.

Couples, Families and Relationships I teach communication skills to help you speak your truth in a honest, caring, effective way; comfortably hear and respond to the other person's perspective, and be in the «now» rather than speak from y our past history.