Diners can visit the Great House, just steps from the restaurant, and get a glimpse of plantation life, but we skipped the history lesson in favor of immediate gratification.
That kind of angry outburst may have been precisely the point of a daylong act of educational disobedience undertaken on Thursday by about two dozen teachers across Oakland, who set aside their normal lesson plans in favor of topics like the war in Iraq, racial inequality and a recent 10percentt cut in the state schools budget.
PAGE A9 London Votes for Mayor A10 NATIONAL TEACHERS IN CALIFORNIA Organize a Teach-In Dozens of teachers across Oakland set aside their normal lesson plans in favor of such topics as the war in Iraq, racial inequality and a recent 10percentt budget cut for the state's schools.
Due to the dilapidated nature of the school building -- broken furniture, cracked windows, freezing classrooms, broken and dirty restrooms, a lack of lunch or gym facilities -- Schultz abandoned his lesson plan in favor of his student's suggestion to focus on the state of their facilities.
But it's more than that: these alleged technocrats have in fact systematically ignored both textbook macroeconomics and the lessons of history in favor of fantasies.
Instead, I would like to show that the presentation of the existence of various forms of life in school textbooks and lessons is highly biased in favor of the theory of evolution and the scientific findings contrary to the evolutionary perspective are hardly mentioned.
For instance, this year we've decided to publish one fewer lesson plan a week in favor of creating one more slot, on Fridays, in which to get your ideas out into the world, via Reader Ideas, guest posts and student contests.
She recalled how her father taught her the importance of deceit in politics, lessons she said she had rejected in favor of openness.
The ruling Conservative party, by contrast, is often accused of defending an "island story" version of history that omits narratives of imperial slaughter, rape and plunder, in favor of boundless lessons on "Hitler and the Henrys".
Lecture courses for large audiences were abandoned in favor of interactive lessons for small groups, enriched by personal feedback from student's experiences in GP's practices.
