The idea, Scheur says, is to give kids confidence in their grammar skills — something that's critical to understanding tricky and often non-sensical rules and concepts, especially as they build on each other and early mastery is critical to later performance.
In other words, mastery is not a function of I.Q.
As they dance side by side, tackling increasingly complex material, the audience is able to see them push and guide each other toward mastery.
On the other hand, mastery of wood and bronze for military purposes reached a level during this period that was seldom, if ever, attained afterward.
To others, his mastery of strategy and attention to detail are their best hope as a newly austere funding chill blows in this January.
Even then success can be achieved only through being better than the others, by mastery and domination – and then only fleetingly in this ugly all-against-all world where you are only as good as your last National Student Survey score, Research Excellence Framework result or Ofsted grade.
It was only possible once other forms of mastery had been established.
Painted around 1333, with Lippo Memmi creating a gothic structure for his panel, he does not have the other artists' Renaissance mastery of perspective and depth.
At other times, with mastery as much psychological as anatomical, he shows them all in the body of a single anonymous dancer.
He was a contemporary and close friend of the rich and famous Wang Hui, and Yun much admired him even to the extent, it is said, of admitting the other's greater mastery in the art of landscape.
