Sentences with phrase «very learned scholar»

I consider Woods not only a very learned scholar but also the most important and wise departmental chairman I have known, and I've known many, and not thought poorly of any while they held that office.

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And some words from Thomas Jefferson, not a contemporary NT scholar, but indeed a very learned man:

And it is very good to have it from a scholar as learned and reflective as Eamon Duffy.

And some final words from Thomas Jefferson, not a contemporary NT scholar, but indeed a very learned man:

Luther did not want to tangle personally with the great scholar, seventeen years his senior, and the best known literary man in Europe; only this very year (1516), Erasmus the famous author of Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Manual of the Christian Knight, 1503) had published in addition to the Greek New Testament his edition of Jerome, and an original work commissioned for the likely future emperor, sixteen - year - old Charles Habsburg of Castile and the Netherlands, grandson of Emperor Maximilian, Institutio Principis Christiani (The Education of a Christian Price), a plea for international peace and the encouragement of learning.

The scholar was visiting his department to give a talk in an area with seemingly very little connection to Reddi's expertise, but he cornered him nonetheless, because «as a doctoral student I had made it an issue to attend talks in areas other than mine and to cultivate learning from people who didn't speak the same language as I do,» he recalls.

The Common Core standards being adopted in the District, Maryland and most other states grew in part from the work of E.D. Hirsch Jr., a University of Virginia scholar who persuaded many advocates like Petrilli that children often don't learn to read very well because they have not been taught enough facts about their world to understand what they are reading.

So, from the very beginning of their journey scholars learn about the colleges and universities that their teachers attended.

The nature of this program also was very attractive to me, especially the level of support they provide for their students and Noyce scholars and the emphasis the school places on not only learning the concepts and practices necessary for teaching science, but also the nature of science itself and how that applies to one's teaching practice.»