Word: wisdoms
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...horsing around at the sumptuous Home Ranch is the latest outdoor pursuit in management training. In today's corporate-training world, there are the old standbys like rock climbing, rope mazes and Dale Carnegie. But a wide variety of other programs have developed that purport to impart management wisdom: martial arts, golf (don't ask), rhythmic drumming (ditto), paintball and treasure hunts among them. Some trainers use improvisational comedy to supposedly unleash the inner Jay Leno in trainees, while other consultants bring along wild animals to scare off any doubts about promoting Smithers to GM in the Northeast office...
...ideals that John Dewey sought at the turn of the twentieth century.Dewey believed that teaching students the relationship between academic texts and their own experience would lead them to be better citizens, and he emphasized the relationship between experiential learning and participation in a community. “By wisdom,” he wrote, “we mean not systematic and proved knowledge of fact and truth, but a conviction about moral values, a sense for the better kind of life to be led.” According to Dewey, knowledge was meant to give students the tools...
Under the new system, courses with a “general education” designation should turn this conventional wisdom on its head. These courses must continue to remain accessible to students from all academic backgrounds, but, more importantly, their pedagogy must be certified as excellent. To that end, we propose that general education courses be more rigorously evaluated on teaching quality. This not only applies to the professor but to teaching fellows as well—these courses should only select teaching fellows with proven track records of quality and experience and a solid command of the English language...
Thus was born Elder Wisdom Circle (EWC), a group of volunteers 60 and older who offer advice on a variety of subjects to anyone who writes in seeking it. Its website, launched in 2001 with one advice giver, currently has about 600, most of whom find out about EWC through their senior centers or by word of mouth. They field about 3,500 letters a month, 35% of which come from young people in their teens to early...
...buying.” Pinkett-Smith said that women should be able to work with and support one another regardless of race or class. She described how she was able to connect with different types of women while she was touring with her heavy metal band, Wicked Wisdom, in Waterloo, Iowa. “I’ve had a lot of contact with women I normally don’t have contact with, and it’s made me realize the connection we have as women,” she said. “There are always going...