Sentences with phrase «useful metaphor»

Useful metaphors for tackling problems in teaching and learning.

The chief instrument for cultural change is «a talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well» and intellectual and moral progress can be charted as «a history of increasingly useful metaphors rather than of increasing understanding of how things really are» (CIS 9).

This is really in a different context («buy and hold», which I've decidedly mixed feelings about), but it's a v useful metaphor to remember.

«I find the fact that trees can not grow to the sky, because of the effects of gravity on tall slender structures, a useful metaphor, suggesting a limit to growth of most things, including corporations» Ralph Wanger

Fungus, in fact, provides us with a useful metaphor for the rapid spread of all - sports radio.

«Being on a train gave rise to the useful metaphor of parallel tracks, representing the need to work on fixing the money - in - politics problem along with whatever else anyone in the audience might rate as their # 1 priority.»

The game of chess is another useful metaphor for understanding how physical laws might have changed.

Boyle does raise some interest points in his stellar quest concerning ethics and the limits of rational thought, and the sun, shown as a blistering orb of brutal immensity, makes for a useful metaphor for the unknowable infinity of the Universe; often this and his visual artistry make Sunshine seem like a slight hat - tip to Solaris.

That blazing, doomed grizzly is a useful metaphor for the «hotshots» we're about to meet, firefighters who do battle with the infernos that periodically burn through America's arid west.

They present a unique blend of useful metaphors, learning strategies, and instructional tips you can use to teach your students to be the boss of their brains.

The exhaust note of this V40 is a useful metaphor for Polestar's work.

Do you think this a useful metaphor for England as it goes to war?

«Putting on the snow tires» is a useful metaphor for investors who are considering sacrificing performance for safety.

But logic does enter the equation in the reassuring framework of scientific training methods — and in the useful metaphor of the contract.

Photographs are a useful metaphor for Klein's work: formal constructs that imply transparency but become an undeniably biased filter through which her subjects must be perceived.

For all the wrong reasons, the work of Dexter Dalwood serves as a useful metaphor for this exhibition.

For Schreiner the contrast that occurs in these transitions is not only visually captivating but also serves as a useful metaphor for the dark and dumbfounding times we find ourselves in.

Of course they are limited, but they present such a nice example of useful metaphor and that is a gorgeous collection of well crafted wordsmithing:

The 9/11 «truthers» offer us a useful metaphor: it is what isn't said that often counts for more than what is said.

Matt Galligan, founder of the Picks and Shovels Co., a cryptocurrency services startup, offered a useful metaphor for Notion.

In Aponte and Hoffman's (1973) description of a family with an anorexic girl, the «open doors» that were always required by the girl's father throughout the house were a useful metaphor for noting the absence of boundaries for privacy, which led the anorexic girl to establish a territorial battle over her body, rather than, for instance, her bedroom.