He also emphasized self-education, preferring the Socratic method of teaching to more dogmatic or didactic forms, and placed great importance on material prosperity, which he believed should be treated with the responsibility of Christian stewardship.
The success of a poem-as-catechism depends on how successfully the writer avoids the impression of predestination, of having filled in the didactic Q&A form in advance.
The project design consisted of a series of catwalks placed at different levels and was conceived with respect to three criteria: (1) the didactic significance of forms and materials; (2) the coherence between architectural forms, techniques, and materials with the identity of the place; and (3) the possibility of removing, if necessary, newly added elements without damaging the relics.
For the past two years I have divided my criticism between work for the Guardian – writing overnight reviews that are, hopefully, full of passion and a sense of urgency – and writing for the literary journal Kill Your Darlings, reviews that are long-form, didactic, and often published long after theatrical seasons are closed.
The response came in two forms: didactic literature warning of the dangers of adapting a diet inappropriate for one's class, and sumptuary laws that put a cap on the lavishness of commoners' banquets.
A didactic and even confrontational form of expression may have come naturally for some in those art groups.
Fortunately, the Allen sisters also produced less didactic photographs in the form of evocative landscapes with exquisite tonal values.
Among the genres that fell in favour, the old moral tale, if not a corpse, surely became obsolescent but raised the question whether it was being replaced by a subtler form of didactic literature, preaching racial, class, and international understanding.
The Suttanipāta collection of the Buddhist canon, composed in a more formal style, contains 55 narrative and didactic poems, in the form of dialogues and ballads; they are composed in a metre akin to the Sanskrit śloka.
His major work is Ḥadīqat al-ḥaqīqah wa sharīʿat al-ṭarīqah ("The Garden of Truth and the Law of the Path"; Eng. trans. in part The Walled Garden of Truth, or The Enclosed Garden of Truth), a lengthy didactic poem in masnawi form written as a sermon, which ends with a moralizing address to the Ghaznavid sultan.
