When it comes to "the direction of the impulses towards the general good", then "mere moral teaching will hardly be likely to produce a frame of mind to which trumpet-peals and hymns are appropriate" (Lange 1873 75, 3 299).
You have crossed over from mere religious teaching, into preaching divisiveness and perhaps zealotry to your followers.
It all sounds a little too sophisticated for poor Olive, but my reservations are swept aside when Grossman, in a matter of mere minutes, teaches her to recognise – and respond correctly to – written commands, using the app Big Words.
They were transformed and uplifted by the way God became man to reach mere humans, teach mere humans, suffer with mere humans, die for mere humans and rise to redeem mere humans; and in the process make them less than mere in their likeness to Him.
Business professors, on the other hand, bristle if they are told they are teaching mere vocational qualifications; they like a bit of academia thrown in too.
Amid rumors of some past glory, he radiated an air of long-suffering superiority, as though his willingness to teach mere high school students were another example of his largesse.
As the cycle repeats, companies that started by copying and learning are inventing and teaching a mere generation or two later.
Collaborating with pupils also ought to be part of agile pedagogy: recognising that it's impossible to make the classroom a learning community without pupils' contribution as partners in, rather than mere recipients of, our teaching.
Matthew Arnold perhaps put it better: publicly funded schools should not be "mere machine[s] for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, but a living whole with complex functions, religious, moral and intellectual".
