My duties for the week: help restore ancient frescoes, hand-roll pasta and – as I would soon learn – let go of my mental rigidity in favour of experiencing a slower-paced way of life.
Dogma was rejected in favour of personal experience and experiment, and old decisions soon became outdated.
In others, these ideas have limited appeal or are rejected outright in favour of practitioner experience and service user feedback as the knowledge on which to base policies.
Whether magic or religion, these groups reject intellectual coherence and objectivity in favour of personal experience and dismiss science as well as traditional religion.
But she roundly condemns a gamut of other policies, including the cancellation of Labour's school building programme, the spending cuts, the scaling back of university-based teacher training in favour of practical experience in the classroom via teaching schools, the English baccalaureate (or EBac), which recognises only narrowly academic subjects, and the tripling of tuition fees.
Responses to this voluntary survey are subjective, and potentially open to bias either in favour of operative experience, or indeed in hypothetical willingness to provide training, when financial implications have not been formulated.
The data presented by respondents is subjective, and potentially open to bias either in favour of operative experience, or indeed in hypothetical willingness to provide training, when financial implications have not been formulated.
In that movie, the wider controversies of the war in Iraq are sidelined in favour of the experiences of the soldiers: the beads of sweat, the dust, the fly dancing on an eyelash as it looks, unblinkingly, down the barrel of a gun.
Lea Yu, a recent university graduate and California native who works as a real estate investment analyst in Beijing, said many young expats like her have kick-started careers by sacrificing income in favour of unique experiences and practical, on-the-job training. .
Chris Cook: The Somerset trainer reports that Rocky Creek is likely to miss this year's Grand National in favour of gathering more experience elsewhere.
