...that not everything that is learned is contained in books, while many people also say that we get most of our knowledge from books. In my point of view, the latter one is as important as, if not more important than the former one, Although not everything is contained in books, we have to learn most of the things in books. Among countless reasons, which influence the former one, I explore the most conspicuous aspects as follows: The main reason I agree with the argument is that knowledge contained in books is systematic. As we know, almost all the books are the children of the marriage of the author’s thought with the real world. In order to express themselves, they surely use a very systematic structure to form a book, which have a specific note of their thought and experiences. With the systematic structure, we can learn things gradually, by our own pace and we need not to worry that if we had miss some of the important details because systematic structure never drop the essential points. What we only need to do is follow the instructions directed by the author and grasps the content by our consideration. There is another reason that deserve some words here, however, is that learning by reading books is an efficient way of accumulating knowledge. In ancient world, no books existed, and people should realize the world by exploring everything by themselves. This method apparently takes too much time and energy. But with the ready-made knowledge provided by the books put in...
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...Galileo’s troubles began in 1613 when he was 49 years old and published Letters on Sunspots. In the book, he talked about the imperfection of the heavens by describing dark patches on the sun’s surface – sunspots. He also said he believed the idea that the earth orbited the sun. In 1616, the Church went further than non-approval of Galileo’s book, condemning it and banning it. In 1620, the Church approved Galileo’s book after editing it. Even though they edited Galileo's book and had the final approval, the book was still not actually published in any countries In 1632, the Church in Florence approved of Galileo’s new work. In 1633, Galileo was threatened with torture. He denied that his book was about the Solar System. He was sentenced to life in prison. Later he was let out and put on house arrest, because of how old he was. In countries where the Catholic Church was not strong, such as England, Holland, Germany, Scotland, and Switzerland, Galileo’s books were available for anyone to read. Galileo was on house arrest for eight years, during the time he was allowed to have visitors. In 1638, he published his book, Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning the Two New...
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...Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Life.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry.Smile.Hope.Live.Love.Experience.Learn.Laugh.Cry “Not Everything That Is Learned Is Contained In Books” By: Reem HachacheENG202 Fall 2013-2014Term Paper | “Learning is defined as a human adaptation process. It is a process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. The learning cycle theory begins with...
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...Topic: It has been said, “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion, which source is more important? Why? ESSAY There has been a hot debate as to which method of gaining knowledge is more important: through books or through experience. Although most people will say that acquiring knowledge from experience proves to be more effective, I myself believe learning from books plays a more important role. To begin with, there is no deny that the information in books has been scientifically proved, and thus correct and widely accepted by the public at a particular time. In order to be written in the books, the knowledge is usually the result of exhaustive research and experiment of previous generations; therefore, learning from books will reduce the time that students use to do the experiments by themselves. This knowledge is particularly important for those who want to be successful in schools, colleges and even jobs. As the matter of fact, from primary school to University, books are completely indispensable for students as they provide the fundamental knowledge required to develop people’s ability. As for jobs, books remain the best choice when it comes to giving information needed in order to perform well in a particular profession. Secondly, from academic reading, people will improve their knowledge in various aspects much faster than from experience...
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...Kadyn Preston Mr. Adams Leadership Development 12 May 2015 Book Review: Sacred Hoops- Phil Jackson “Leadership comes from the person, not necessarily the position.” I learned that from a man named Phil Jackson. He happens to actually be more than a man, but a chief in a leadership position. When one finds their dream and follows it, they become obsessed with accomplishing that dream. For Phil Jackson, that passion came at an early age and stuck with him all the way through his career. That dream of his is called the “love of basketball.” Or as he would say, “Sacred Hoops.” When in a sport, you can’t be too loose on a court/field. Or a pitcher’s mound, or a tennis court. What you’ve got to do is teach yourself to live completely and absolutely...
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...Skill One In an ideal world, a child's parent or guardian would teach them about personal finances. Unfortunately, the amount of credit card debt in America, along with the number of adults who cannot balance a check book, makes it clear that many adults do not have the knowledge needed to teach children about finances. It is the opinion of many that schools need to teach kids about personal finance, but piling this requirement to the current curriculum would mean that schools would need more teachers, which is unaffordable for many districts. Adding this requirement would also create an increase in the number of credits required for graduation. Skill Two 1. When students start college, they have to begin by getting themselves enrolled. It's kind of a hassle because there are all these rules that they have to follow even way ahead of when they actually find themselves sitting there in class. 2. After students have been on the job for eight hours, they are gonna feel dog tired. Their get up and go has got up and went. They are moving kind of slow, so it's super hard to hit the books and prepare for a college class. Skill Three Cornish, Edward. Futuring: The Exploration of the Future. Bethesda: World Future Society, 2004. Print. Bloch, Immanuel, Tilman Esslinger, Markus Greiner, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Olaf Mandel. “Quantum Phase Transition from a Superfluid to a Mott Insulator in a Gas of Ultracold Atoms.” Nature 415.6867 (2002): 39-44. Academic Search...
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...Louis Presbyterian as an assistant editor and columnist in 1859. She wrote everything under the pen name “Howard Glyndon.” In 1860, she started writing editorials for the St. Louis Republican. They then sent her to document the Civil War in 1861. It was there she published her first book, Notable Men in the House of Representatives. The book was about important men in Congress. Laura was a pro-union loyalist, and she wrote several poems concerning the Civil War. She was also hired to write the lyrics to a song that was sung by the Missouri troops. She even got to interview Abraham Lincoln. Then, in 1864, Laura published her first poetry collection, titled Idyls of Battle and Poems of the Rebellion. In 1865, she traveled to Europe seeking further education, since she couldn’t go to college. She then learned to write in several languages; French, Spanish, Italian, and German. She also met a man there named Michael George Brennan. She was engaged to him for a short period of time. He died shortly after their engagement, so they never married. About four years after arriving, Laura left Europe and returned back to the United States because she wanted to publish more of her works. She...
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... When I learned that one of our reaction papers will be about Thomas Kuhn’s ‘Structure of Scientific Revolutions,’ I immediately searched through the internet what this article or book is about. Opening one of google’s link, I saw it was a book and (the story) looked very long. I thought to myself, ‘Oh, no! This is going to be a very long and boring read.’ And I knew I will not be able to finish reading it and give a reaction in a week so I looked for a summary of the book, instead. And there were a lot done by different people/organizations. From the various summaries I read, I found the book interesting because it was not a conventional science book. Yes, it talked a lot about science but the paradigm shift that Kuhn wrote about got my interest. The ‘scientific revolutions’ were true and believable and somehow, I agree with them. Science, or normal science as Thomas Kuhn put it, is the process of gathering facts to build hypotheses that explain different phenomena in the world. It is a ‘research firmly based upon one or more past scientific achievements, achievements that some particular community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.’ And this is the science that almost everybody knows. This is the science I know. I couldn’t care less what those new achievements are. I just watch the Discovery Channel and surf the internet and they would tell me what is new and how things happen in just one click. In this book, I could almost...
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...In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, the story chronicles the author’s search for the truth of Henrietta Lacks, an African American women whose cancer cells were harvested to create an immortal line of cells for scientific experimentation. The author tells Henrietta and her family’s story, including the backstory, emotional baggage, and more. Due to being mistreated by the media and scientific community. Skloot struggles to gain the family’s trust. The purpose of this book is to expose the issues of ethnicity and consent in medical research. In 1951, Henrietta Lacks obtained help for a “knot” on her cervix at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. There, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, and received radium and x-ray therapy. Through this process, some of the tumor’s tissue was removed, and sent to George Gey, the head of tissue culture at the hospital, where...
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...DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON DIVINE REVELATION Dei Verbum Solemnly Promulgated by His Holiness, Pope Paul VI on November 18, 1965 The full text is available at http://www.cin.org/v2revel.html Numbers in square brackets [x] are footnotes which are found at the end of the document. PREFACE 1. Hearing the word of God with reverence and proclaiming it with faith, the sacred synod takes its direction from these words of St. John: "We announce to you the eternal life which dwelt with the Father and was made visible to us. What we have seen and heard we announce to you, so that you may have fellowship with us and our common fellowship be with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ" (1 John 1:2-3). Therefore, following in the footsteps of the Council of Trent and of the First Vatican Council, this present council wishes to set forth authentic doctrine on divine revelation and how it is handed on, so that by hearing the message of salvation the whole world may believe, by believing it may hope, and by hoping it may love. CHAPTER I REVELATION ITSELF 2. In His goodness and wisdom God chose to reveal Himself and to make known to us the hidden purpose of His will (see Eph. 1:9) by which through Christ, the Word made flesh, man might in the Holy Spirit have access to the Father and come to share in the divine nature (see Eph. 2:1S; 2 Peter 1:4). Through this revelation, therefore, the invisible God (see Col. 1:15; 1 Tim. 1:17) out of the abundance of His love speaks to men as...
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...Definitions of Curriculum Definition 1: Curriculum is such “permanent” subjects as grammar, reading, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and the greatest books of the Western world that best embody essential knowledge. Definition 2: Curriculum is those subjects that are most useful for living in contemporary society. Definition 3: Curriculum is all planned learnings for which the school is responsible. Definition 4: Curriculum is all the experiences learners have under the guidance of the school. Definition 5: Curriculum is the totality of learning experiences provided to students so that they can attain general skills and knowledge at a variety of learning sites. Definition 6: Curriculum is what the student constructs from working with the computer and its various networks, such as the Internet. Definition 7: Curriculum is the questioning of authority and the searching for complex views of human situations. Definition 8: Curriculum is all the experiences that learners have in the course of living. (From Marsh, C. J. & Willis, G. (2003). Curriculum: Alternative approaches, ongoing issues. (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.) Types of Curriculum —from Leslie Wilson’s website and Larry Cuban (Courtesy of Dr. Judith Irvin, Florida State University) Overt, explicit or written curriculum is simply that which is written as part of formal instruction of the schooling experience. It may refer to a curriculum document...
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...religion based around a very common human emotion, empathy. Empathy plays the biggest role in the book through the global religion known in the novel as Mercerism. The practice of Mercerism centers on a piece of technology known as the empathy box. Users of the empathy box will take this technology by it handles which in turn infuses them into a type of physiological virtual experience. One of the experiences showcases the struggles of a mysterious man named Mercer and his journey up a mountain. Mercer’s journey up the mountain is met with hardship as unidentified bystanders would toss rocks at him as he attempts to ascend to his destination. Mercer would repeatedly fall to the bottom of the mountain but resume to the repeat process of reaching the top. Characters in the book also experience acts of enlightenment with Mercer where they are taught or told something by him that builds their character in the real world. Towards the end of the story, character Rick Deckard seems to have reached a point of enlightenment when he was able to experience the fusion with mercer in the real world without the use of the empathy box. It was then when Rick realized that Mercerism wasn’t just a false religion meant to mind trick people into becoming subordinates. The interesting thing about the empathy box is that not only are you watching this tragedy of Mercer unfold in front of you; everything that happens in this virtual world to the users becomes a reality in the real world. For example...
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...When Siddhartha was young he had everything, everyone adored him, and he had all the things any person could possibly want at his fingertips. But he often found himself feeling unfulfilled and empty. So he left that world to go find himself and to fill the void in himself. “One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking-a detour, error. These were Siddhartha’s thoughts; this was his thirst, his sorrow.” (pg.7-8) After leaving his home, Chris described his home life. How it was a complete lie, all of the happiness was fake and after learning the truth about his parents he could no longer go back. Chris knew who he was as a person, but needed to escape the toxic environment he was previously in. His dad had left his old family because Chris’ mom had gotten pregnant with Chris. Chris and his sister were completely unaware of their parents previous lives until a family friend of his parents...
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...permitted under Canadian copyright law, without the prior written permission of the author. Notes to the Reader: While the author and publisher of this book have made reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of the information contained herein, the author and publisher assume no liability with respect to losses or damages caused, or alleged to be caused, by any reliance on any information contained herein and disclaim any and all warranties, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy or reliability of said information. The publisher and the author make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this work and specifically disclaim all warranties. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for every situation. It is the complete responsibility of the reader to ensure they are adhering to all local, regional and national laws. This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that neither the author nor the publisher is engaged in rendering professional services. If legal, accounting, medical, psychological, or any other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. The words contained in this text which are believed to be trademarked, service marked, or to otherwise hold proprietary rights have been designated as such by the use of...
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...B. F. Skinner An Inspiration in Psychology Kimberly Whitmore PSY3421, Psychology of Learning and Motivation Abstract Burrhus Fredrick Skinner, a son, literary writer, husband, father and most important an inspiration in the psychology world. B.F. Skinner born March 20, 1904, in a small railroad town in Pennsylvania, was a creative child who liked to think out side the box. Skinner was a behaviorist, which means he seeks out the explanation to human behavior not in the mind but outside within the environment that collectively determines behavior. In the opinion of his professional peers, he was the most influential psychologist in the country. Over his career in Psychology, Skinner also faced criticisms, especially when it came to the Air Crib. Skinner was a revolution to the times in psychology, with his research, his workings with the military, experiments on dogs, pigeons and rodents to his observational findings. His philosophies of behaviorism still play a major part in the psychology world today. Skinner is the most important American psychologist of the twentieth century, and arguably the most important world psychologist. No issue seemed too large or too small for his observant eye and his analytic insights. 1. A Skinner Family Background. 2. How did Skinner make his way in to Psychology? 3. What is the cumulative recorder? 4. What is the operant conditioning chamber; also know as Skinner’s Box? 5. What is operant behavior? 6. The Air...
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