Sentence examples for a century of learning from inspiring English sources

WHAT IF TEACHERS GAVE UP the vestiges of their educational past, threw away the worksheets, burned the canon and reconfigured the foundation upon which a century of learning has been built?

Inspired by the ancient Athenian schools, the Platonic Academy established in Florence in the second half of the 15th century became a centre of learning and diffusion of Christian Platonism, a philosophy that conceived of all forms as the creative thoughts of God and that inspired considerable artistic innovation and creativity.

The occupation of Timbuktu, a center of learning for centuries, was the latest in a long historical list of conquests — by Arab nations, by the Songhai and Maasina empires, by France.

Let the skeptics look to Islam's own rich history, with its centuries of learning and tolerance and progress.

"I don't want people teaching students that Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi gave a systematic treatment of quadratic equations in the 10th century instead of learning how to solve quadratic equations," she says.

The principles are also based on a century of research on human learning, cognition, reading, and perception.

A CENTURY OF COVERS American businesses quickly learned that the matchbook's value lay outside the box.

However, even after a almost a century of research, efforts to positively influence learning through assessment do not always yield encouraging results (Gijbels et al. 2009).

What have I learned after a century of child-rearing (the total age of my children is 115)?

Modern musicians have the advantage of a wealth of recordings, which has enabled them to learn from a century of diverse styles and interpretions.

Such beautiful masterpieces were obviously much too costly and rare for the thousands of masters and students who thronged the 12th-century seats of learning.