Not exact matches
E. D. Hirsch argues in Cultural Literacy:
What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students
accumulate shared symbols and the
knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national community.
That is, it arises precisely from
what has been most characteristic and creative about modern civilization: its dynamically
accumulating knowledge and technology, its expanding industrial system and its emphasis on egalitarian consumerism.
For let me put this question:
what system of chromosomes would be as capable as our immense educational system of indefinitely storing and infallibily preserving the huge array of truths and systematized technical
knowledge which, steadily
accumulating, represents the patrimony of mankind?
As worlds of gods and men are, for the Buddhist, consciousness, ruled by everlasting necessity, so also are the worlds of ideas and of verities: for these, too, there is one, and only one necessary form of
knowledge and expression, and the thinker does not make this form but he adopts
what is ready to hand... and thus those endless repetitions
accumulate which Buddha's disciples were never tired of listening to anew, and always honouring afresh as the necessary garb of holy thought.18
But I also see a need to pass along
what I've learned about writing and marketing,
knowledge that I've
accumulated in almost twenty years honing my craft.
I have to tell you the own we purchased for our mortgage was one renewed every 36 months
what was called extension but also one we could get extended even if payments were late extending only made it easier for bank to change interest higher also not explaining each extension was
accumulating interest late where at the last experience I had my husband had gotten 8 extentions and be loan terms without my consent or
knowledge belmond Ia first state only way they do mortgages.
I figured that I might as well share
what knowledge I've
accumulated over the years, so you can avoid the mistakes I have made!
If our best scientists, with the
accumulated knowledge of millennia, can not agree on the seriousness of our current situation or
what climate variables will come into play over the next century, then how the heck are they supposed to determine the exact size, number, and placement of massive sun shields to deflect the perfect the amount of radiation, without any unforeseen consequences?
The built - in features of our brains, and the life experiences we
accumulate, do in fact fill our heads with immense
knowledge;
what they do not confer is insight into the dimensions of our ignorance.
Your feelings may be hurt, but your incorrect ideas won't make it in to the
accumulating body of scientific
knowledge, which is
what really matters:
During countless bargaining sessions, Hicks Morley lawyers
accumulate knowledge about
what is going on in the sector across the province.