The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of GodMany of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to reforms and is getting worse. This analysis of the causes underlying the crisis seeks to offer concrete, affordable proposals for effective reform. Vivian Troen and Katherine Boles, two experienced classroom teachers and education consultants, argue that because teachers are recruited from a pool of underqualified candidates, given inadequate preparation, and dropped into a culture of isolation without mentoring, support, or incentives for excellence, they are programmed to fail. Half quit within their first five years. Troen and Boles offer an alternative, a model of reform they call the Millennium School, which changes the way teachers work and improves the quality of their teaching. When teaching becomes a real profession, they contend, more academically able people will be drawn into it, colleges will be forced to improve the quality of their education, and better-prepared teachers will enter the classroom and improve the profession. |
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... Augustine in the fifth, and Maximus the Confessor in the seventh. In the early church these four stand out as the most rewarding, the most profound, and the most enduring. They can be read as living interpreters, not just as historical ...
... Augustine in the fifth, and Maximus the Confessor in the seventh. In the early church these four stand out as the most rewarding, the most profound, and the most enduring. They can be read as living interpreters, not just as historical ...
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... Augustine. The chapter on faith expands on a theme introduced in the first chapter, that the knowledge of God is ... Augustine's understanding of a just society. Chapters 9 and 10 deal with things, the stuff of Christian culture, the ...
... Augustine. The chapter on faith expands on a theme introduced in the first chapter, that the knowledge of God is ... Augustine's understanding of a just society. Chapters 9 and 10 deal with things, the stuff of Christian culture, the ...
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... Only when wounded by love can one know the God of the Bible. As Augustine us” to God.11 To love God is already to be. would write several centuries later, it is love that “sets us on fire” and “lifts not all there was to see.
... Only when wounded by love can one know the God of the Bible. As Augustine us” to God.11 To love God is already to be. would write several centuries later, it is love that “sets us on fire” and “lifts not all there was to see.
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... Augustine's City of God rivals it in profundity. More remarkable, Origen took great care to present the views of his opponent to his readers. (Perhaps this is why Thomas Jefferson had two copies of Against Celsus in his library, the ...
... Augustine's City of God rivals it in profundity. More remarkable, Origen took great care to present the views of his opponent to his readers. (Perhaps this is why Thomas Jefferson had two copies of Against Celsus in his library, the ...
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... Augustine's On the Spirit and the Letter: “to whom be glory forever. Amen.”1 They wished not only to understand and express the dazzling truth they had seen in Christ, by thinking and writing they sought to know God more intimately and ...
... Augustine's On the Spirit and the Letter: “to whom be glory forever. Amen.”1 They wished not only to understand and express the dazzling truth they had seen in Christ, by thinking and writing they sought to know God more intimately and ...
Contents
Seek His Face Always | |
Not My Will But Thine | |
The End Given in the Beginning | |
The Reasonableness of Faith | |
Happy the People Whose God Is the Lord | |
The Glorious Deeds of Christ | |
Making This Thing Other | |
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING | |
Likeness to | |
INDEX OF BIBLICAL CITATIONS | |
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