It is possible also that he was aware of and admired the great Frankish king Charlemagne, who had at the beginning of the century revived learning in his realm.
But some teachers are now reviving mastery learning.
In True Crime (1999) Eastwood starred as a veteran reporter whose investigative skills revive when he learns that a prisoner (Isaiah Washington) scheduled for execution that night is probably innocent.
For example, the first episode begins with a scene in which Marion, portrayed as desperately trying to revive his deceased owner, learns she has actually been dead for four months, whereupon he casually gives his cat friends permission to eat her.
"It has all been consumed, traded, downloaded, understood, heard before, sampled, learned, revived, judged and found wanting.
After he made a short visit to England in 1738, his hopes were revived when he learned of a new opposition party that was gathering at Leicester House around George II's son Frederick, prince of Wales.
The retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently introduced a Web site called iCivics, which features a series of interactive games meant to animate and revive the lost art of learning civics.
"We have been replanting forests for 4,000 years, but we are only just now learning how to revive a coral reef," said Mineo Okamoto, a marine biologist at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, who has led development of the palm-size ceramic discs.
In March a teacher in Krugersdorp was shot dead in front of his class by a pupil he had had expelled".We are trying to revive the culture of learning," says Elias Mashile, the head of Morris Isaacson, "but it takes time".
Cathedral schools revived the traditional curriculum of learning, stressing reading, writing, speaking, and computation.
