Sentences with phrase «unexamined prejudices»

«These other factors may include calculations about narrow political advantage, unexamined prejudices and assumptions, even sheer personal ego.

When a teacher's behavior reflects unexamined prejudices, misconceptions, or ignorance toward an aspect of a child's or family's, multiple identities, it undermines and subverts best practices.

What shocked me was not just the paucity of argument in the proposal, but the general cultural ignorance behind it, the unexamined prejudices, the kneejerk anti-intellectualism and cultural suspicion of contemporary art.

Instead of a community of people exercising wise judgements about the general welfare or even acting out of enlightened self - interest, we have large groups of people expressing unexamined prejudices which are all too easily manipulated by those who control the mass media.

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But the term nowaways usually connotes, in the words of my dictionary, a «set of general unexamined assumptions,» and these are for the most part simply the parochial prejudices of one's time and place.

Anaximander's view that just because things fall to the earth does not mean the that earth itself is falling frees us from a sort of «prejudice», an unexamined conceptual structure for thinking about space.

Some might criticize this term as a synonym for unexamined popular prejudice, but they would expose themselves to the charge of harboring an elitist contempt for the convictions of the American people.

We do urgently need to face our unexamined assumptions and prejudices.