To engage one's mind means to use or employ mental effort in thinking, reasoning, or problem-solving.
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The most effective educational environment, therefore, is the one that stimulates and
engages the mind of the student.
Interactive
teaching engages the mind, helping the learner not only learn the text, but also how to study it on their own, and then apply it to their lives.
Let your «relax» mean «relax» and don't relax by watching TV or doing another activity that causes activity
without engaging the mind.
When we read books or listen to podcasts we are engaging in a cognitive activity
which engages our minds but doesn't engage our bodies.
Think about it: At a medical assisting school or college, you can
engage your mind as well as your heart.
She has shown some tracking skills which can be used to
engage her mind in great games of finding objects.
It is a curious matter when an exhibition
engages the mind with dexterity and arouses an emotional response not at all.
In more abstract works by Yayoi Kusama, Adriana Varejão, and Nicholas Hlobo, embellished surfaces are designed to
engage the mind while leading the eye on an orchestrated journey around the picture plane.
It's no good simply telling them to love Jesus, we must tell them about the Jesus they can love as an experience and effectively to
directly engage the minds of the young with authentic truth, explained in a lively and jargon free manner, with a sense of joy and shared friendship in God is an act of love and it is received as such.
The unique Waldorf philosophy of inspiring the heart
before engaging the mind, enables our students to develop capacities that eventually outpace those in mainstream education, helping them become fully balanced, lifelong learners, through college and beyond.
His penchant for younger protagonists and wildly imaginative fantasy sequences
certainly engages the mind of the child (and he has a special gift for animating the movements of children), but he has never made his films at the expense of the adults in the crowd.
In return, you'll have a legion of
engaged minds at your disposal... and you'll save money on tissues.
I use a term — I don't know where it came from, but I wrote about it in Flattening Classrooms,
Engaging Minds called Technopersonal Skills.
I think that because riding a motorcycle does
n't engage the mind as much, it (like running) allows one to ruminate on one's problems or concerns, and from that standpoint I do think it can provide a context for healing.
It is an important part of their health and happiness to have plenty of avenues to release pent up energy and to
engage their minds so they do not become bored.
True to his working dog heritage, the Komondor is a smart cookie who learns quickly with the right trainer — that is, one
who engages his mind and works with his independent nature rather than against it.
Its outstanding programs and elementary outreach,
Engaging Minds through Art, serve the University, Philadelphia and the region.
Correspondence Course collects the expansive and borderless epistolary world of Carolee Schneemann, whose multi-form work has
fearlessly engaged mind and body for over 50 years.
«Quite simply, work of great quality has its own time scale, [and] engages minds according to its own terms,» Bortolozzi adds.
Whereas Allard's tactile, seductive shredded paper masses titillate the senses, implying states of change and natural evolution, Lee's conceptual
geometry engages mind over matter, asking us to envision the purity of a non-material concept, the unchanging form of the universe and our place within it.
Having now returned from speaking with and listening to some of the sharpest and
most engaged minds in the business, I'm coming to think I haven't been radical enough.
To help couples create new realities and move into a fuller experience of intimate connectedness, we need to provide opportunities for more immersive learning that
fully engages the mind, body, and spirit of both partners.
«A page - turner that
engages your mind while it tugs at your heartstrings... Don't Say A Word has made me a Barbara Freethy fan for life!»
Listen to the story of how Laurie Anderson became the iconic multimedia artist she is today, why she prefers to keep things simple, and how she began telling stories as a child — and never stopped: «I try to make stories that
really engage my mind.»
It is clear that thequestion of a possible acquiescence to the primacy of Peter in some modified form is
engaging the minds of many non-Catholic theologians with a new urgency at the start of the new millennium as they contemplate the Roman question.
They are puzzles that
engage our minds as well as apt physical embodiments of the journeys we all face.
Often with intense workouts, you are
engaging your mind in an intense way — being hyper - focused and straining everything to complete the exercise.