Sentences with phrase «who challenges your assumptions»

Things that seemed critical when you wrote them down will fade as you meet real people who challenge your assumptions.

It was Dana Bathurst, a high school art teacher, who challenged their assumptions: that good art must approximate European traditions and that pursuing a career in art wasn't possible.

In 2011 during a presidential debate, he compared the minority of scientists who challenged this assumption to 17th - century astronomer Galileo, who was persecuted by the Catholic Church after suggesting that the Earth revolved around the Sun, rather than the reverse.

Sometimes you hire an outsider who challenges your assumptions, asks hard questions of employees and customers, and gives a dose of reality.

Not exact matches

Kant was responding to the earlier challenge of David Hume, who showed that the underlying assumptions of both science and theology were not supportable empirically.

Dr. King comments on the thoughts of Lorenzo Dow McCabe who attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology: If theological reconstruction is to meet the needs of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and religious experience, thought McCabe, then theology must reassess its traditional theistic assumptions in such a way that it can speak of a God who is capable of relating fully to the contingencies of personal life and historical change.

If our relationship with God is in the spirit of adoption — if God is the gracious parent who freely and lovingly chooses to parent us — might this concept then challenge our own cultural assumptions about «real» parenthood?

He may also have discovered that the Song of Solomon, often called the Greatest of Songs, lifts the soul beyond the «thou shalts and thou shalt nots» of our pedestrian lives and gives us courage to confront and challenge the barriers that limit women and the assumptions that limit all who are different.

Many movements for social change, while seeking to halt violence or injustice, too often simply recast who is right and who is wrong, who is «us» and who is «them,» without challenging the paradigmatic assumption of duality.

The six theologians who led the event — Carter Heyward, Barbara Gerlach, Rita Nakashima Brock, Gail Paterson Corrington, Jacquelyn Grant and Delores Williams — challenged age - old assumptions about human life, divine power and Jesus Christ as the only true redeemer.

Even though the creators of the National Curriculum are keen to emphasise the importance of what they call «the English literary heritage», by which they mean «authors with an enduring appeal that transcends the period in which they were writing, and who have played a significant role in the development of literature in English» [Qualifications and Curriculum Authority 2007, 71), their choice of recommended authors reveals a set of post-Protestant secular assumptions which need to be challenged if Catholic culture is to flourish in Catholic schools.

I don't believe I'm not saying anything much different than what you wrote above, but I would encourage you to point out that shaping role of culture that underlies who we become as humans rather than simply accepting cultural assumptions as givens that can not themselves be challenged.

For every internet Margaret there are probably 100 more people at home who believe and spread the same nonsense to vulnerable mothers who don't have the resources on hand to immediately challenge and dispute those assumptions.

President Buhari who was in the United Kingdom for the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference in London, British capital was speaking of the problems bedevilling the oil and gas sector of the economy which he said were part of the challenges he inherited upon an assumption of office.

The Minister, who revealed that debt to GDP in Ghana is coming down, challenged the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana to come clear with his assumptions and conclusions on the economy.

Buratai, who was represented by the head of the counter-Insurgency Operations in the Northeast (Operation Lafiya Dole), Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, said, «Since my assumption in office in 2015, Nigerian Army under my leadership has been responding to security challenges across the nation, such as Boko Haram Insurgency, militancy, kidnapping among others.

Volkow, who has directed the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 2003, is still challenging assumptions.

«Even people who have been critical of Libet's work, by and large, haven't challenged that assumption,» says Aaron Schurger of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Saclay, France.

Today, researchers are challenging traditional assumptions about transplant eligibility and donor matching in an effort to expand the universe of patients who can benefit from this treatment while improving long - term success rates.

And I think this myth, in particular, can cause a lot of harm in people who run with an n = 1 idea if they don't challenge the assumptions behind their own bodies.

Of course, we'll likely hear more about this dungeon in a later Nintendo Direct, but it appears that my earlier assumptions about the dungeon were right and this is a challenge dungeon for players who want the extra challenge, rather than an entirely new dungeon with story content.

That is because the learning in that area often requires challenge of assumptions, deep inquiry into leaders» thinking and the opportunity for extended dialogue between the learner and someone who is more expert.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

That added to the assumption that kids who have challenges outside of school can't learn.

Likewise, Education Pioneers alumna Annie Hsu, who recently completed her 10 - week summer internship with the education technology company Chegg, in Santa Clara, Calif., said the experience also challenged her assumptions about those currently working in education.

Teachers who strive to design challenging, meaningful learning tasks may find that their students respond differently depending on the students» assumptions about intelligence.

«Getting [customers] to try [raw foods] can be a challenge because, depending on who they are, a little education might be essential in order to clear up misconceptions and assumptions,» says Maggie Johnson, co-owner of Sojourner Farms, makers of Sojos freeze - dried raw foods and treats.

Travel offers experiences that expand minds, change paradigms, challenge assumptions and shape who you become.

The education programme invites people of all ages and levels of interest to engage with contemporary art and to challenge the assumptions of who art is for, as well as reflecting on the role of culture in everyday life.

Longer - term projects aim to try to broaden access to the arts by challenging the assumptions of who art is for, as well as offering a social space for children and adults to meet, chat and play.

Like many other artists who began working in the late 1960s and 1970s, Weiner is deeply interested in methods of display that challenge the assumption that the work of art exists as a discrete object in the physical world.

The Chicagoan artist, who made a name for himself with his art - meets - urban regeneration projects in the city, is back in a gallery with work that challenges assumptions about race, class and what it means to be poor

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

This highly significant work by a French émigré who challenged long - held assumptions about what was considered art, paving the way for conceptual practices, is a fitting starting point for our exhibition.

Barbara Kruger, (born January 26, 1945, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.), American artist who challenged cultural assumptions by manipulating images and text in her photographic compositions.

Like other Conceptual artists who gained international recognition in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Weiner has investigated new forms of display and distribution that challenge our traditional assumptions about the nature of the art object and its relationship with the viewers.

Both opponents who challenge the thoroughness of one's logic or test one's assumptions and overall make one a better analyst, and proponents who provide reference standards of quality are much better to have than darkness without direction.

Within 48 hours he is writing (# 309): «It is the editor and peer reviewers of a suitable journal who will be far more able to pick up any errors in your assumptions or calculations than I.» That is, he feels able to make unwarranted and unjustified criticisms at one stage, but when challenged pleads a lack of competence to have made such criticisms in the first place.

The conference concluded in this vein, with Prof Achim Steiner, having been recently appointed as director of the Oxford Martin School following his role as executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, challenging those who felt that 1.5 C was inevitable to rethink their assumptions.

Unless nations specifically identify the equity principles that have guided their ghg emissions reductions, and the assumptions about warming limits entailed by their INDC, nations and citizens around the world who may be harmed by illigitmate uses of common pool resources have an insufficient factual basis to challenge the potentially unethical responses of nations to their ethical obligations.

The mission of the program could also be described this way; to be the home of incisive and original investigative journalism, to challenge assumptions and question conventional wisdom, and most importantly to give voice to victims of injustice who deserve to be heard but have been silenced.

(I know quite a few legal marketers who would challenge that assumption.)

The use of group affiliations, such as age, race, or occupation, as a «proxy» for potential juror partiality, based on the assumption or belief that members of one group are more likely to favor defendants who belong to the same group, has long been accepted as a legitimate basis for the State's exercise of peremptory challenges.

But for those with existing knowledge, who seek greater understanding, a challenge to their assumptions, and some stimulating criticism, it has much to offer.

«All therapists who are willing to examine and challenge their own assumptions and biases can work successfully with clients who are non-monogamous, as long as they honor the polyamorous relationship and embrace what the clients want, rather than imposing their own views,» writes Tina Timm, who authored the chapter, «Brief Therapy with Consensually Non-Monogamous Couple: Challenging the Status Quo.»

These basic lessons are the «why» behind these two columns: * Never accept the numbers you receive from CRA as being correct; always make sure you understand and agree; * Always insist on the background calculations and assumptions to the numbers; there is no way anyone should pay a bill without understanding it; too many people just pay when it comes to CRA; * Never give up if you think you are right; having said this, I do not know yet if the company in this story will in fact file a second Notice of Objection to recover the additional $ 1,000... cost benefit does enter into the equation at times; * There are a surprising number of CRA staff in the various departments who are understanding and helpful; * As I have stated in earlier columns, there are mechanisms built into the system that protect and allow taxpayers to challenge CRA where it is appropriate.