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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... psalms, and nurtured by the liturgy, in particular, the regular celebration of the Eucharist. Theory was not an end in itself, and concepts and abstractions were always put at the service of a deeper immersion in the res, the thing ...
... psalms, and nurtured by the liturgy, in particular, the regular celebration of the Eucharist. Theory was not an end in itself, and concepts and abstractions were always put at the service of a deeper immersion in the res, the thing ...
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... Psalm 105:4 in the Latin version, “Seek his face always” (Quaerite faciem eius semper). This verse is cited four times by Saint Augustine in his work The Trinity. More than any other passage in the Bible it captures the spirit of early ...
... Psalm 105:4 in the Latin version, “Seek his face always” (Quaerite faciem eius semper). This verse is cited four times by Saint Augustine in his work The Trinity. More than any other passage in the Bible it captures the spirit of early ...
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... psalm, “the heavens declare the glory of God” (Ps. 19:1). They did not argue that there is a God because there is order; rather, they saw design in the universe because they knew the one God. God was not a principle of explanation. In ...
... psalm, “the heavens declare the glory of God” (Ps. 19:1). They did not argue that there is a God because there is order; rather, they saw design in the universe because they knew the one God. God was not a principle of explanation. In ...
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... psalms and in the devotional reading of the Bible. Even laymen like Clement of Alexandria moved effortlessly between the study and the sanctuary. If we are to enter into the spirit of early Christian thinking, then, we must consider not ...
... psalms and in the devotional reading of the Bible. Even laymen like Clement of Alexandria moved effortlessly between the study and the sanctuary. If we are to enter into the spirit of early Christian thinking, then, we must consider not ...
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... psalms. It had close parallels to the synagogue, though in Jewish worship the central reading was from the Torah, that is, the five books of Moses, whereas in the churches it was a selection from the gospels, what Justin calls the ...
... psalms. It had close parallels to the synagogue, though in Jewish worship the central reading was from the Torah, that is, the five books of Moses, whereas in the churches it was a selection from the gospels, what Justin calls the ...
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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