The other half is in the arena of ideas, and countering the rhetoric and methods that extremists use to recruit.
But, she added, "much of the surrounding rhetoric about methods and goals" -- material on teacher reflection and critical thinking, for example -- "sounds very much like a typical ed school".
The 1968 Columbia student strike, for example, while it was no doubt a heady moment for the students who participated, horrified many of their teachers and peers, including those who sympathized with the radicals' aims but mistrusted their rhetoric and methods.
I am saying that when the results are this horrifying, it's worth a thorough reassessment of rhetoric and war methods.
By now, every critical analysis of Donald Trump, our own national Hormone Monster, notes that he rose to political prominence on the back of birtherism, and though he meekly disavowed it during the campaign, he's never abandoned the rhetoric and the methods he used to push the lie forward.
Scientific evidence that is inconvenient for industry (on, say, the risks of climate change or mercury) has been censored out of government reports.The League of Conservation Voters argues that this "starve-and-strangle" approach involves "deceptive rhetoric, arcane procedural methods, and funding cuts to carry out an anti-environment, pro-corporate agenda".
The Scholia Sinaitica and the Scholia to the Basilica provide glimpses of the school's teaching method, comparable to the method of rhetoric schools at the time.
Policymakers seem enamoured by the methods and rhetoric of industry, leading them to neglect the interests of donors and their families and eroding the public values underlying the healthcare system.
As a gritted-teeth realist, spiritual as an abandoned shoe, I like to think that I'll be more resistant than most to the unsubstantiated claims and vague rhetoric of this alternative method.
This article is a contribution to the study of the spread of management innovations, methods and rhetorics.
