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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... virtues. At the same time, one observes again and again that Christian thinking, while working within patterns of thought and conceptions rooted in Greco-Roman culture, transformed them so profoundly that in the end something quite new ...
... virtues. At the same time, one observes again and again that Christian thinking, while working within patterns of thought and conceptions rooted in Greco-Roman culture, transformed them so profoundly that in the end something quite new ...
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... virtues, and especially in the final chapter on the passions, I have tried to show the indispensability of love to Christian thinking. In an essay on the church fathers, Hans Urs von Balthasar once wrote, “Greatness, depth, boldness ...
... virtues, and especially in the final chapter on the passions, I have tried to show the indispensability of love to Christian thinking. In an essay on the church fathers, Hans Urs von Balthasar once wrote, “Greatness, depth, boldness ...
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... within a Greek and Roman tradition of moral philosophy that preceded them, they transformed what they received. The goal of life came to be understood as likeness to Christ, the cardinal virtues were reinterpreted as forms.
... within a Greek and Roman tradition of moral philosophy that preceded them, they transformed what they received. The goal of life came to be understood as likeness to Christ, the cardinal virtues were reinterpreted as forms.
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... virtues was expanded to include distinctively biblical virtues, for example, patience (or long-suffering) and humility. Finally, I turn to the passions (or affections) and hence to love. In the thinking of the church fathers, desire ...
... virtues was expanded to include distinctively biblical virtues, for example, patience (or long-suffering) and humility. Finally, I turn to the passions (or affections) and hence to love. In the thinking of the church fathers, desire ...
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... virtues, prudence, justice, courage, and temperance, a staple of classical moral philosophy, to present the distinctive features of Christian ethics. Others noted points of correspondence between biblical terms designating God's ...
... virtues, prudence, justice, courage, and temperance, a staple of classical moral philosophy, to present the distinctive features of Christian ethics. Others noted points of correspondence between biblical terms designating God's ...
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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