Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are competent of ourselves to claim anything as coming ...from us; our competence is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically develo...ped as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at ev...erything else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less com...petent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the deman...ds on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judge...s of the best book, and few writers of the best books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for a...postles too "apostolic" to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms--out-moded even in the United States--all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splend...id.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »