Sentences with phrase «understanding than an education»

Taking tests can produce better recall of facts and a deeper understanding than an education devoid of exams.

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Two damning reports appeared in 1959, condemning American graduate management education as little more than vocational colleges filled with second - rate students taught by second - rate professors who did not understand their fields, did little research and were out of touch with business.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

And later: «The language of Latin Mass was only understood by the top - heavy minority of clergy, and those steeped in religious education, rather than the lay majority.»

The explosion in information, the need for increasingly specialized skills to acquire or understand that information, and the resulting emergence of a professionalized faculty more interested in their narrow research programs than the general education of students: these have led, the canonicists argue, to a dangerous «dispersal of authority,» to a «loss of integrity in the bachelor's degree» (ICC; TM).

Theological education needs to take more seriously than it has that the mass media may be having a marked effect on religious faith, not just by the media's presentation of religious issues, but by the influence the media are exerting on perceptions of social reality within which religious faith is understood and experienced.

ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and other's reactions to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need to be more tolerant of others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have to actually live in a society like the mideast to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard to be serious about religion — when the serious side of society is state it is hard to see religion being the serious side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based side of society egad — doesn't god get lost in all that?

American Muslims understand this because we bothered to LEARN our religion rather than let some Mullah with no education dictate what we should believe.

Fortunately Mary, there are people out there who actually understand evolution, who have studied evolution and who have doc.umented and taught evolution, so that those of us with even a rudimentary education on the topic can dismiss your comment as nothing more than the desperate and childish attempt to cling to religion even as the rest of the world grows up and embraces reality.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

The Christian educator needs more than this, for he is asked to provide education in Christianity for others, not only to describe what it has been and is, but to use language in such a way that the learner will come to an understanding of the nature of Christianity and hopefully will discern the presence of God in his own life and commit himself to the Christian way.

If he cares so much about Christianity being attacked in other parts of the world, perhaps he should engage in a campaign of education and understanding rather than division.

They think it's a clobbering verse against gay people but all it takes is a marginal education in Biblical Exegesis to understand the verses you so eloquently listed with such immaturity means something other than what you are thinking.

That said, my grandfather had a sixth grade education and acquired a broader understanding of the world than Chad, so I believe you can learn regardless of academic background if you have the right atti.tude and desire.

My son will understand that he's in control of his own destiny and that education, work ethic and discipline will guide him to an even better life than I've enjoyed.

Although the tour was lovely, our bi-lingual tour guide was difficult to understand over the clomping hooves of the horse, so it ended up being more for sight seeing than education.

Waldorf education understands that developing human potential requires far more than just academics.

Also, children in special education are more likely to be abused than kids who are not, and considering the pathetic funding and stress of supporting and caring for a special needs child, it should be no wonder, but please understand this: not everyone who suffers becomes traumatized, some of us experience what positive psychologists refer to as «Post-Traumatic Growth.»

Belonging to a community bound by common aims, i.e. providing support and information for families whose children are being educated outside school, upholding the freedom for parents to choose to take direct responsibility for the education of their children, and promoting knowledge, understanding and acceptance of education otherwise than at school.

to promote knowledge, understanding and acceptance of education otherwise than at school in the world at large.

As I understand it, European Jewish culture also places a higher than average emphasis on education due to historical reasons.

Rather than encouraging education, leadership, and faith based on a loving and understanding God, the Latino Pentecostal church simply spreads ignorance and «fear», further oppressing those in need to feel empowered.

«The governor doesn't understand education and what needs to be done to ensure that New York schools get even better than they already are,» Magee said.

But rather than wishing the public understood and calling for more education, scientific organizations and individual scientists must take a more personal and proactive interest in reaching out to the public, he said.

While we continue to review the administration's budget documents in more detail, the overall figures reflect an understanding that continued investments in basic research and higher education will more than pay for themselves through the innovations and subsequent economic growth they generate.

Armed with a solid understanding of the principles taught by the Weston A. Price Foundation and years of education and exposure to holistic nutrition principles, I found I had a broader outlook of healthcare than my coworkers.

Furthermore, they fail to understand that education is more reproductive of an exploitative social order than a constitutive challenge to it precisely because it rests on the foundations of capitalist exchange value.

But ensuring quality in online education requires more than just following a set of standards, so here are some of the most important things you should understand about quality and compliance in online education.

«It is better able to judge the quality of education provided by a school than the New Schools Network which, as its press release demonstrates, does not appear to understand the meaning of an average and recognise that some schools will be above and below average.»

They don't care any less about their children or value education less than English speaking parents, but understanding how the system works, let alone finding a role for themselves in it, is not as straightforward as marching up to the principal and saying, «Sign me up.»

The transdisciplinary education — as an integral one — seeks for more than that: understanding of the meaning of knowledge.14

A position paper by IBO, the independent group that governs the program, elaborates: «The IBO is unapologetically idealistic in believing that education can foster understanding among young people around the world, enabling future generations to live more peacefully and productively than before.»

Now, more than a dozen books later, Gosselin recently took time from her busy schedule to talk to Education World about her passion for creating books that increase understanding and promote tolerance.

More than reaching any specific conclusion, the conference was most successful in inspiring participants with a renewed understanding of and dedication to their common commitment to a better system of education.

One can half - understand this in the Chamber of Commerce case, because that outfit's main education - policy strategist has been none other than true - believer NCLB architect Margaret Spellings (now on her way back to Texas to head the George W. Bush Foundation).

Writing groups convened by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association are at work on what they say will be a leaner, better - organized, and easier - to - understand version than the 200 - plus - page set that has been circulating among governors, scholars, education groups, teams of state education officials, and others for review in recent weeks.

For more than a generation he was known as the Department of Education's data - collection guru, the person inside the bureaucracy who understood best what information to collect and how to collect it.

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

A Department for Education spokesman said: «Our new RS GCSE ensures pupils understand the diversity of religious beliefs in Great Britain through the study of more than one religion — an important part of our drive to tackle segregation and ensure pupils are properly prepared for life in modern Britain.

Now, as we return authority to states and districts, no one should imagine that folks in the states are somehow smarter or more informed than their counterparts in Washington (although I've never quite understood why Washington - centric reformers are so confident that the obverse is true — that political appointees at the U.S. Department of Education are nobler, smarter, and care more than those yahoos out there in the states.

Educators want nothing more than for our students to feel successful and excited to learn, and to understand the importance of their education.

«Educational improvement is typically understood as helping educational institutions become more effective at achieving their goals,» he says, «but the social and economic context is changing more rapidly than education institutions.»

This missing link is significant enough to impede achievement of the goals, for without it reform initiatives will remain simply that: initiatives from without, rather than understandings shared by those integral to the delivery of education.

This is a bit ironic because to understand the impact of Brown, it is crucial to understand Milliken and, indeed, the latter decision has in many ways had a more lasting impact on education than Brown.

The numbers of parents paying by cash are similar across both stages of education, which suggests that all schools are moving away from it at the same rate - more than half of parents appear to have moved past cash, but only secondary schools have dedicated software as a clear alternative, perhaps suggesting that some primary schools do not fully understand the benefits of parental payment software.

And, for older children, we are working a lot with data from the Tripod Project [now based at Tripod Education Partners, Inc.], which I founded more than a decade ago to help school leaders understand what students of different racial, ethnic, and social class backgrounds experience at the classroom level.

In response to the policy pamphlet, the Church of England's chief education officer Reverend Nigel Genders said: «The Church of England continues to be committed to the provision of high quality RE in schools, which is vital for a balanced understanding of the world today where more than 80 per cent of the population are people of faith.

As a matter of fact, we should look no further than the filter bubble to understand why good and important things in education aren't rising to the top.

Founded in 2013 by Sara Ahmed, a master's candidate in the International Education Policy Program, the Alexandria, Egypt - based Elm International School encourages children to connect with the world and works to foster understanding rather than fear.