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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... wisdom that Augustine stands at the summit. He is the most discerning, his thought flows at a deeper level, his range of interests is greater, he wrote with more elegance, and he has been the most influential, at least in the West. But ...
... wisdom that Augustine stands at the summit. He is the most discerning, his thought flows at a deeper level, his range of interests is greater, he wrote with more elegance, and he has been the most influential, at least in the West. But ...
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... wisdom of the past. An early and astute critic reproached Christians for abandoning the “ancient doctrine” that had been taught by “the wisest peoples and cities and sages.”5 In different dress this charge was brought against ...
... wisdom of the past. An early and astute critic reproached Christians for abandoning the “ancient doctrine” that had been taught by “the wisest peoples and cities and sages.”5 In different dress this charge was brought against ...
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... wisdom.” From this truth, however, he did not draw the conclusion that Christian thinkers should ignore the arguments of the philosophers or dismiss questions that arose from logic, history, or experience. “It is far better,” wrote ...
... wisdom.” From this truth, however, he did not draw the conclusion that Christian thinkers should ignore the arguments of the philosophers or dismiss questions that arose from logic, history, or experience. “It is far better,” wrote ...
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... wisdom.” In their ignorance (thinking their doctrine was unique) they had turned away from the society of the nations. Origen does not dispute Celsus's point; indeed, he accentuates it. The Jews are different from other people. They do ...
... wisdom.” In their ignorance (thinking their doctrine was unique) they had turned away from the society of the nations. Origen does not dispute Celsus's point; indeed, he accentuates it. The Jews are different from other people. They do ...
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... wisdom of ancient Greece and Rome. There was little, it seemed, wanting. Yet for those who followed Christ this world seemed distant and unreal. For its wisdom did not include the Bible with its account of the creation of the world out ...
... wisdom of ancient Greece and Rome. There was little, it seemed, wanting. Yet for those who followed Christ this world seemed distant and unreal. For its wisdom did not include the Bible with its account of the creation of the world out ...
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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