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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... truth in literature and art. The Christian poet Prudentius, the subject of chapter 9, celebrated the “glorious deeds of Christ” in verse and invited readers through poetry to make place for the Trinity in their hearts. Icons are, of ...
... truth in literature and art. The Christian poet Prudentius, the subject of chapter 9, celebrated the “glorious deeds of Christ” in verse and invited readers through poetry to make place for the Trinity in their hearts. Icons are, of ...
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... account is not wholly biographical. No doubt there is truth in this view, yet, whatever the literary background of the work, it is not insignificant that Justin chose to present his embrace of Christianity as a conversion to philosophy.
... account is not wholly biographical. No doubt there is truth in this view, yet, whatever the literary background of the work, it is not insignificant that Justin chose to present his embrace of Christianity as a conversion to philosophy.
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... truth.”9 The Word of God makes its way not by argument but as men and women bear witness to what has happened. As Justin finished his conversation, the old man, to Justin's surprise, did not try to convince him of the teachings he had ...
... truth.”9 The Word of God makes its way not by argument but as men and women bear witness to what has happened. As Justin finished his conversation, the old man, to Justin's surprise, did not try to convince him of the teachings he had ...
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... truth of Christ penetrates the soul by means of our moral as well as our intellectual being. The knowledge of God has to do with how one lives, with acting on convictions that are not mere premises but realities learned from other ...
... truth of Christ penetrates the soul by means of our moral as well as our intellectual being. The knowledge of God has to do with how one lives, with acting on convictions that are not mere premises but realities learned from other ...
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... truth of Christ. During his lifetime some Greek thinkers had begun to take note of the new movement and to read Christian writings. The physician-philosopher Galen, a younger contemporary of Justin, was acquainted with the account of ...
... truth of Christ. During his lifetime some Greek thinkers had begun to take note of the new movement and to read Christian writings. The physician-philosopher Galen, a younger contemporary of Justin, was acquainted with the account of ...
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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