An analytical scheme addressing three major factors in fluid and electrolyte evaluation (1, effectiveness of the arterial circulation; 2, extracellular fluid volume [ECF]; and 3, state of hydration [ 59]) is compatible with widely taught precepts [ 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67].
It is therefore ironic that until recently the U.S. military academies extensively taught the precepts of a French officer, David Galula, whose guidelines despite initial success in the 1950s in Algeria, were not followed by the French, but whom General David Petraeus, formerly Commander of the United States Central Command, called "the Clausewitz of counterinsurgency".
So, we slowly saw how the perception of Islam should be taught, on which precepts it should be taught changing.
Many of the basic precepts taught today are wrong: Governments can stabilize economies; government spending stimulates economic growth, ditto easy money from a central bank; free markets are inherently unstable.
The adagium primum non nocere (first, do not harm) is one of the principal ethical precepts taught in medical school.
But I'm violating a precept taught to me by Mike Milken 25 years ago: Never buy financial paper because of inherently leveraged balance sheets.
The preceptors also claimed the need for some understanding of how to teach students when precepting does not work.
Most important, religious teachers were brought in to instruct the Bedouin in the fundamentalist precepts of Islām taught by the religious reformer Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in the 19th century.
The centrist leader Yair Lapid, otherwise stridently secular, has found inspiration in Talmudic precepts: "The rabbis teach that if someone comes up against you to kill you, you should kill him first," he said.
It'd be fun to report that that job taught me important skills and precepts that followed me for the rest of my life, but that'd be pushing it.
