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Now, what we are discussing has profound bearing upon the kind of assurance and guidance that should be given to children who seem destined to develop a sense of defeat and frustration. The doom of the children is the greatest tragedy of the disinherited. They are robbed of much of the careless rapture and spontaneous joy of merely being alive.
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
Lawrence’s second element, the “biological,” concerned the components of war, “sensitive and illogical” human beings. Because of unknown human factors, commanders are forced to hold a body of men in reserve as a safeguard, thus stretching thin their other human resources. Lawrence worked to magnify his enemy’s ignorance: “We were to contain the
... See moreA. R. B. Linderman • Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
Initially, FDR was schooled at home by Sara. At six he attended an impromptu kindergarten on a neighboring estate. Then began a series of governesses and tutors at home.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
Donald McGavran’s The Bridges of God: A Study in the Strategy of Missions.11 McGavran had been a missionary in India, and his book studied people groups with massively distinct socio-cultural and religious differences.
Alan J. Roxburgh • Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World
His journey was guided by his extraordinary intelligence, his parents, his teachers at the Ethical Culture School,
Martin J. Sherwin • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
capitalizing on the spirit of sensibility and sensitivity that seemed to reside inherently in most of his students.
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
the pedagogue would help the student to find the path which for him could lead fastest to his goal.
Ivan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
Educators act as guides
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
The most outstanding examples of white women’s sisterly solidarity with Black women are associated with Black people’s historical struggle for education. Like Prudence Crandall and Margaret Douglass, Myrtilla Miner literally risked her life as she sought to impart knowledge to young Black women.17 In 1851, when she initiated her project to
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