Sentences with phrase «than a text book»

Alpha Omega is another popular American Christian curriculum, which features workbooks (called «lifepacs») rather than text books.

The UK publication «Young Writer» magazine and the American «My Little Magazine» (now, sadly, no longer published) gave them more useful writing exercises than any text book, with the bonus of entering (and sometimes winning) competitions.

Living literature as the source for learning about the world around us, rather than text books.

As a young teacher, I wasn't sure I understood, but I soon came to learn that teaching children who live in poverty requires more than text books, shiny desks and a good daily lesson plan.

KNO developers have created a math page that shows it is actually cheaper than the text book (in terms of 4 years education).

It is more a brief than a text book.

Implementing the strategies in real life rather than text book knowledge is the key factor for Mentoring.

Not exact matches

You can make more than just a few bucks If you have pricey text books from college.

Entire books have explained how an obsessive compulsion to read text messages and check your Twitter status have created zombies who can't really participate in discussions and can't look you in the eye for more than a second.

Readers who love your books might be excited to find your content available in formats other than text.

In the introductory text for Part I of their 2016 book, Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic Global Porfolios to Profit in Good Times — and Bad, Adam Butler, Michael Philbrick and Rodrigo Gordillo state: ``... we have come to stand for something square and real, a true Iron Law of Wealth Management: We would rather lose half our clients during a raging bull market than half of our clients» money during a vicious bear market.

If you disagree with my interpretation (and it is sincerely how I interpet the text), ask yourself how it is that your «god» couldn't come up with a better way to communicate than a book that is so readily subject to so many interpretations and to being taken «out of context», and has so many mistakes in it.

he has a very detailed chapter on your worm... I think if you read real science text books on evolution you will get the facts rather than just a rebuttal based on biblical stories.

A simple read through a 3rd grade Biology text book educates one about evolution than the trash you just spewed.

In his book, The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns invites Christians to read the Bible as a conversation or dialogue, rather than an infallible text or guide.

The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.

But I do want to know if a candidate places fealty to the Bible, the Book of Mormon (the text, not the Broadway musical) or some other authority higher than the Constitution and laws of this country.

The acclaimed book is written by Eugene Peterson, and puts the original text of scripture into contemporary language and has sold more than 16 million copies.

I stemmed the flood of tears and rose to my feet, believing that this could be nothing other than a divine command to open the book and read the first passage I chanced upon; for I had heard the story of how Antony had been instructed by a gospel text.

What makes you think your book is any more correct than the koran or the hindu texts.

THIS book just so happens to be 400 years old and was the first mass produced text for the populace, rather than only for nobles.

Here is something from Jordan Bajis, (and trust me, nothing is more Orthodox than this, he writes for the Eastern Orthodox Book, «Common Ground», page 50 of his book: «Everyone brings something to the text, i.e, philosophies, experiences, emotions, attitudes, eBook, «Common Ground», page 50 of his book: «Everyone brings something to the text, i.e, philosophies, experiences, emotions, attitudes, ebook: «Everyone brings something to the text, i.e, philosophies, experiences, emotions, attitudes, etc..

The warnings against Jehovah's Witnesses have stacked up over the past decade in particular, with dozens of regional charges of extremism and more than 80 of its books, pamphlets, and other texts (including its magazine, The Watchtower) banned in Russia, according to The Moscow Times.

The Book of Job, Jesus» teaching that the Tower of Siloam did not fall on people because they were worse sinners than others and the text of Hebrews 11, great faith chapter, makes that quite explicit.

read the introduction in any high school science text book - congratulations, you now have more knowledge than is in all of the bible.

-- religious books try to make people look better than they really are — koran, and all the other texts, that's what they do.

In answer tothey not him.There is no place in the book, the Bible, that says the planet is only 6000 years old, it is the word of God, just because the Bible has been misinterpreted by men and women over the years does not make it (the Bible) a work of fiction.The Bible has been proven to be more accurate and unchanged than any other text of antiquity.Case in point Kedorlaomer.

Rather than seeing it as a book of proof texts, it helps us see what God has been doing in the world, and what our role might be in carrying the story forward.

The whole book, which keeps unusually close to concrete facts, is little more than an amplification of this text.)

Mike, if I were a biblical literalist I would have a problem with the Book of Job; but it is a very ancient text and speaks to a people for whom Satan was often suspected of being more powerful than God.

A postmodern approach to the New Testament witness to Jesus» resurrection, as it is developed by Marianne Sawicki in her book Seeing the Lord: Ressurrection and Early Christian Practices, [10] is more efficacious in enabling access to the reality of resurrection than any analysis of the biblical texts that is determined by a critical methodology founded on a Kantian epistemology.

Such a charge is not unfounded, for when the actual calls for violence and bloodshed are tallied, the Bible has more bloody texts than the Muslim Qur» an or any other religious holy book.

Moreover, he contends that reading this early book as Ford does makes the text «less rather than more intelligible» (WPSP 11).

It was a pioneering feat of simply outstanding quality, testimony for which is seen in the fact that it served as the basic text - book of early human history for more than two and a half thousand years.

Author of more than 37 text books on atheistic philosophy, of which his most popular have been studied for decades in colleges all over the world:

Truth be told there are about 20 credible texts other than the Holy Bible that reference Jesus, some are entire books contesting the doctrines of Christianity.

Give me one shred of text to convince me this book has any more merit than Greek Mythology.

Its Pauline authorship is these days not seriously doubted; its date of composition is more clearly determined than perhaps any other book of the New Testament; the origin of the church is recounted in Acts; the geographic site of Corinth is known and excavated; the integrity of the text is not widely challenged; text - critical uncertainties are few.

In a letter to a friend at Zwickau, Luther wrote about Eck's text in desperate apocalyptic mood: «The book... is nothing less than the malice and envy of a maniac... Rejoice, Brother, rejoice, and be not terrified by these whirling leaves... The more they rage the more cause I give them...»

He had an extraordinarily active and successful career, among the fruits of which were the distribution of over two million copies of the Scripture text, in different languages; the equipment of several hundred missionaries; the circulation of more than a hundred and eleven million of scriptural books, pamphlets, and tracts; the building of five large orphanages, and the keeping and educating of thousands of orphans; finally, the establishment of schools in which over a hundred and twenty - one thousand youthful and adult pupils were taught.

The very fact that it is called a Chi or «record» rather than a Ching or «text» is evidence that the orthodox do not regard it as of Confucian origin, for they reserve that term only for books which they believe were by Confucius.

Parents also notes that babies younger than six months appreciate high - contrast picture books with little to no text.

Is that somehow better than texting - because books are more socially accepted than technology?

So if you find that your child responds to pictures better than words, find books that have lots of interesting images accompanying the text to help him grasp an idea.

Rather than using standardized textbooks, Waldorf Grades students create their own main lesson books — writing text and illustrations from their classroom learning and sometimes outside research.

When my sons were 13 and 15, our absolute maximum with text - books etc in any one day is three hours; more normal was less than two hours, including lots of discussion and veering off at tangents.

Rather than rushing out to buy text - books or a curriculum when beginning to home educate, many families find that it's best to begin with a period of «deschooling».

If your child is not interested in facts and non-fiction, there are plenty of fiction books based in particular historic settings which (in my experience) give a better understanding of history than many text - books.

The more I read, the more I became aware that education is far more than studying from text books.

So if your child responds to pictures better than words, find books that have lots of interesting images accompanying text to encourage reading.