In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Ideally, classical education is undertaken with a highly educated full-time ( extremely expensive ) personal tutor.

Medieval Greek is a cover phrase for a whole continuum of different speech and writing styles, ranging from vernacular continuations of spoken Koine that were already approaching Modern Greek in many respects, to highly learned forms imitating classical Attic.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era ; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as Top Hat ( 1935 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ) and Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

In classical music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions.

Ottoman science and technology had been highly regarded in medieval times, as a result of Ottoman scholars ' synthesis of classical learning with Islamic philosophy and mathematics, and knowledge of such Chinese advances in technology as gunpowder and the magnetic compass.

Yes, starting with their third album The Yes Album ( 1971 ), produced a highly successful blend of classical, psychedelic and progressive ensemble rock.

Within a century of her death she was highly regarded as a classical writer.

She painted her whole life, changing style from the classical impressionism of her youth to the highly abstract modernist style of her later years.

" And although he respected the work of Eliot, Williams became openly critical of Eliot's highly intellectual style with its frequent use of foreign languages and allusions to classical and European literature ..

In 1973 Kantor and Soldovnikov published a textbook on hypercomplex numbers which was translated in 1989 ; a reviewer says it has a " highly classical flavour ".

The term " classical architecture " also applies to any mode of architecture that has evolved to a highly refined state, such as classical Chinese architecture, or classical Mayan architecture.

Language is also important in relation to Tranio and Lucentio, who appear on stage speaking a highly artificial style of blank verse full of classical and mythological allusions and elaborate metaphors and similes, thus immediately setting them aside from the more straightforward language of the Induction, and alerting the audience to the fact that we are now in an entirely different milieu.

The Golden Ass and Satyricon were particularly revived and widely read in renaissance Europe, and are rare surviving samples of a mostly lost genre, which was highly popular in the classical world, known as " Milesian tales.

In the baroque and classical music eras these singers were highly appreciated by opera composers as well.

Thomas Winter, an instructor of Greek at the University of Nebraska, considered the Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures to be a " highly useful aid toward the mastery of koine ( and classical ) Greek ," adding that the translation " is thoroughly up-to-date and consistently accurate.

) A classical love story, filmed in a highly naturalistic, almost documentary style, it is set in the small and boring Swedish town of Åmål, and follows two young girls who awkwardly fall in love.

Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional ( if highly abstracted ) tonal bebop harmony and melodic lines that suggest the influences of modern classical composers Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky.

Through the Middle Ages Etymologiae was the textbook most in use, regarded so highly as a repository of classical learning that, in a great measure, it superseded the use of the individual works of the classics themselves, full texts of which were no longer copied and thus were lost.

According to the orchestra's website: " Among ongoing projects are the BBC SO Family Music Intro scheme, introducing families to live classical music, BBC SO Student Zone and the highly successful BBC SO Family Orchestra, alongside work in local schools.

The next generation of humanists were bolder admirers of pagan culture, especially in the highly personal academy of Pomponius Leto, the natural son of a nobleman of the Sanseverino family, born in Calabria but known by his academic name, who devoted his energies to the enthusiastic study of classical antiquity, and attracted a great number of disciples and admirers.

We must build a corps of highly professional teachers of interior design who have had education, experience in the profession and are willing to take on the usual accompaniments of teaching -- minimal income and minimal status among their confreres.

Annual authorizations of $15 million were added for area vocational education programs that meet national defense needs for highly skilled technicians.

In 1944, Jones wrote to John Walvoord of Dallas Theological Seminary that while the university had " no objection to educational work highly standardized …. We, however, cannot conscientiously let some group of educational experts or some committee of experts who may have a behavioristic or atheistic slant on education control or even influence the administrative policies of our college.

This highly literate society places strong emphasis upon education, which is free and compulsory until age 16.

The U. S. Census Bureau cites Generation X as highly educated, statistically holding the highest education levels when looking at current age groups: U. S. Census Bureau, in their 2009 Statistical Abstract.

He taught himself to read by looking at copies of The Strand Magazine but his writing betrayed his poor education all his life, with highly eccentric spelling and grammar.

Johnstone ’ s work highly criticized what he saw as the negative impact the education system has on the creative mind.

Papert's work has been highly influential to other researchers in the fields of education and computer science.

More took a serious interest in the education of women, an attitude that was highly unusual at the time.

Leepson asserted that the majority of people favors some sort of sex instruction in public schools, and this has become an intensely controversial issue because unlike most subjects, sex education is concerned with an especially sensitive and highly personal part of human life.

Usually regarded as an honest and highly effective governor, Dewey cut taxes ; doubled state aid to education ; increased salaries for state employees ; and still reduced the state's debt by over $ 100 million.

During this period a strategy of nationalization of private enterprises, centralization of the economy and " Malgasization " of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a highly centralized economic system and a high level of illiteracy.

Wilson's record on secondary education is, by contrast, highly controversial.

Unlike the systems of most other countries, education in the United States is highly decentralized, and the federal government and Department of Education are not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards ( with the recent exception of the No Child Left Behind Act ).

These hospitals have state-of-the-art equipment and sophisticated technology, over 900 highly qualified staff, creating a good environment for medical education.

George Foster Peabody ( 1852 – 1938 ), namesake of the awards, was a highly successful investment banker who devoted much of his fortune to education and social enterprise.

However, in his celebrated Autobiography, John Stuart Mill ( arguably the nineteenth-century's most influential English intellectual ) spoke highly of Quintilian as a force in his early education.

Though his education was far from complete, Sargent grew up to be a highly literate and cosmopolitan young man, accomplished in art, music, and literature.

In a highly provocative chapter titled “ Creating Leaders ”, this eclectic group of scholars argues for adopting a decidedly ontological approach to leadership education ... For these authors, integrity, authenticity, and being committed to something bigger than oneself form the base of ‘ the context for leadership ,’ a context that once mastered, leaves one actually being a leader.

Agriculture has become a highly technical industry and Christian County farmers realized the need for continuing education and technical training concerning implements, machinery, fertilizers, chemicals, seeds, and overall good farming practice.

In the 2009-10 school year, over 97 % of Marlboro High School graduates and 96 % of Colts Neck High School graduates reported that they planned to go on to post-secondary education, with many accepted into highly competitive colleges and universities.

Grammar schools thus emerged as one part of the highly varied education system of England and Wales before 1944.

" The matter of such a science, he held, must be sought in the history and education of some highly cultivated nation, to be studied in written remains, works of art, and whatever else bears the stamp of national thought or skill.

His family was highly successful and placed great emphasis on education and hard work, all of which undoubtedly contributed to his later scorn for what he termed “ conspicuous consumption ” and waste of the Gilded Age.