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fine, but teaching them what counts is best." This quote, which includes a clever play on words, suggests a very practical approac...

made to render the greatest happiness for the greatest number. That is all that utilitarianism is equated with. There are differen...

belief, but at the "priests and their stupid or hypocritical instruments . . we shall think of them only to pity their victims and...

Even in the absence of hard and fast codes of ethics such as those that exist for some professions, there are certain basic guidel...

gear pedagogy accordingly, politicians, policymakers and the public at-large are still "stuck" in the old paradigm, which states t...

universal laws? Clearly, they can sometimes, but other times they would not be thought of in such a manner. John Stuart Mill on th...

ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

human understanding. He saw the concept as being equated with something that exceeds any individual persons comprehension. Transce...

(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...

system in ancient Greece wherein a woman had a protector (kyrios) or one who watched over them. This was either a brother or their...

upon an instructor who cannot handle the task. However, those who are called in to substitute for the AWOL educators provide an e...

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

when it is expressed as a love of virtue, and justice when it is considered as one of many virtues. For Hobbes, self-interest "ta...

1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

persuasive arguments, Aristotle mentions three techniques: pathos, ethos and logos (What is logos?) "Pathos" (from which we get th...

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

no date). The senses are most attuned when the metaphysical component of time is involved, with a brief moment remembered f...

tangled when one relies on the system to teach. In fact, when examining contemporary life, one can see that a large compliant abou...

they realize that they may not be able to survive. They only have to come up with the money because an old, poor friend married a ...

lesson is severely hampered. The role that critical thinking plays within the early childhood teaching community is one tha...

of dressing appropriately for the formal work environment. What if you long for the outdoors and physical activity? It is a clich?...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

that Piaget didnt recognize that children could learn from their environment, however. Indeed, Piagets work reinforced the common...

Weavers Ideas Have Consequences speaks to the complexities that emanate from mans shortcomings about the world around him. The co...

or sight) was subjected to each individuals standards of judgment. Whereas concrete facts were not changeable or subject to ones i...

lived in a society where multifetal pregnancy reduction was a socially acceptable alternative to the numerous fetuses produced by ...

that there is just one objective right way of doing things and on the other hand, there are many truths, is an enormous difference...

what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...

however, is preliminary, a basic orientation, if you will, before settling down to discussing the books main argument, which conce...