Sentence examples for Schoolman from inspiring English sources

Alexander Neckam, (born Sept. 8, 1157, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Eng. died early 1217, Kempsey, Worcestershire), English schoolman and scientist, who was a theology instructor at Oxford, and, from 1213, was Augustinian abbot at Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

He is widely credited with achieving that goal, and received an honorary degree from Princeton and another from Harvard for being "a wise and perceptive schoolman who has rallied his city to the cause of better public education".

4.15), He was never troubled, as a mediaeval schoolman might be, by a conflict between ecclesiastical dogma and the best thought of the ancients, because the Word who taught the ancients from afar is, for him, the daily shepherd of the Church.

Ibn Ezra was no schoolman, but he certainly experienced, and expressed in rich and evocative Hebrew, a deep alienation from mundane reality and passionate longing to return to the spiritual realm.

"You reach a point in time when enough is enough," Mr. Schoolman said.

"Why should someone support a government-funded corporation that operates as inefficiently as the M.T.A.?" In February 2009, Mr. Schoolman bought the struggling Hampton Luxury Liner and refurbished the fleet with DirecTV and wireless Internet service.

Until about 1890 the "theoretical" elements in teacher preparation were of two kinds: the study of certain principles of teaching and school management, exemplified in the textbooks written by experienced schoolmen that were published in many countries during the second half of the 19th century; and instruction in "mental and moral philosophy," history of education, psychology, and pedagogics.

Aristotle regarded money as "barren" and the medieval schoolmen were hostile to usury.

As it is used, even by these schoolmen, it seems to signify only those means by which we take in information about our environment, including our own bodies, presumably.

For a decade, Unesco fanatics – who seem to regard the site as theirs – played medieval schoolmen in arcane disputes on the ethics of Bamiyan.

His reputation as a proto-scientist took a hit when his philosophy was bowdlerised, repackaged and made altogether unintelligible by the schoolmen of the middle ages, so that by the time the Renaissance came along, he was seen as less an inspiration than a dead hand, something to be thrown off by the new era of experimentation.