While the book proved popular, Gladwell's critics dismissed some of his conclusions (for example, that Asian students are good at math because they come from agricultural societies emphasizing hard work) as spurious and found his simplistic rhetorical style patronizing.
Dr. Silbert, who grew up in an immigrant family and worked on a kibbutz, drew heavily on both experiences to create an environment emphasizing hard work and mutual support.
This attitude may in fact be rooted in the Chinese belief in Confucian work ethics emphasizing hard work, perseverance, and patience.
Xi, who took office in November, 2012, has associated himself with an earthier generation of Communists, a military caste that emphasized "hard work and plain living".
How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.
The youngest of three children, she went to elementary school in Sagaponack's one-room school, spent two years at East Hampton High School and two more at the Putney School in Vermont, which emphasized hard work and farm chores.
In Feeding the Other, Rebecca de Souza argues that food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity.
The goal is noble: as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. movingly said, we want to judge people "not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character". Accordingly, a large study of racial socialization (Hughes et al., 2006) concluded that parents of majority and minority children alike do emphasize hard work, virtue, self-acceptance, and equality when raising their children.
Although female respondents emphasized hard work over brilliance more than did male respondents, the authors say that a "gender-balanced" score for each discipline's belief in the importance of genius also predicted gender differences in the various fields.
Shipstead rises to the challenge of evoking the excitement of dance, and her descriptions are all the more powerful for emphasizing the hard work behind the grace.
My parents have always been one of the strongest influences in my life, emphasizing resilience, hard work, and the importance of education.
