But some education deans, like Alfred S. Posamentier of the School of Education at the City College of New York, say understanding pedagogy is as important as mastering subject matter.
Correspondingly, Control-Value Theory of achievement emotions (e.g., Pekrun et al. 2007) posits that students enjoy learning when they are confident to master subject matter while they attribute intrinsic and/or extrinsic value to the tasks, materials and contents at hand.
Jobs' diet is only the latest example of a high-profile technologist using mind to master matter.
They are thus to be distinguished clearly, as Aristotle already emphasized, from standards which are practical, rational, and normative in a different way, namely the technical or technological standards internal to every art, craft, or other system for mastering matter.
Karate masters who mattered most: Besides my brother, it was Derrick Williams: in 1978 he took me to my first tournament and helped me to visualize winning.
As Scott Schaefer, old master specialist at Sotheby's, warns: "Most minor artists are never going to be on the level of old masters no matter how much time passes".
Martin Gardner, for 25 years the master of matters mathematical for Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column and later the punisher of the paranormal and the pseudoscientific in his column "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" for the Skeptical Inquirer, died Saturday at a hospital in Norman, Okla.
To be intelligent in mastering sharp matters requires experience and even some wonderful strokes of luck but in reality you are likely to be called intelligent only for the more consistent and regular aspects, such as studying and sticking to things that matter.
Plato says in one of his dialogues, "Soul is the master, and matter its natural subject".
How much greater, then, is the reward of knowing one mastered the subject matter honorably and is competent in the profession.
