I went to a college that actually had a major called history and literature. That sort of didactic explaining-- people between the wars, and I would say also in the 1950s,
I went to a college that actually had a major called history and literature. So that didactic strain wouldn't go over.
And it was just an amazing moment for me, because what happened, from my perspective, from my experience, was he went from being this kind of didactic know it all to this other guy who just simply wanted to contribute to me. And I have children, so I get that.
And I'm very fact. I just am didactic by nature. And I wanted something that used my teaching voice.
I mean, they're not devoid of lessons, but they're dry. They're didactic . And the idea that took shape for Donna and I is that we began to go back and read some of the major fables the were on the Neighborhood of Make Believe.
I gave them a lecture. I engaged in didactic training of 11-year-olds. Think about this. Anyone have 11-year-olds?
marine wildlife. But we also show films that are how we engage with the ocean, and appreciate it, and have fun with it, from surfing, And I don't mean kind of didactic , beat them over the head about, maybe there's a movie about coral bleaching or something like that, not that.
I went to a college that actually had a major called history and literature. One was that my father was essentially didactic .
They're not drinking because the economy and because the country is on the up and up. So I call these "the didactic bartender guides." And then we move forward to-- I know, this is going to end, guys, hold on-- cocktail theory. The first cocktail theory book "The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks" by David Embury, was not written by a bartender, it
Every culture knows that that's a story you tell your children to teach them not to lie. Now we could sit there and be didactic and say hey, don't lie or I'll hurt you. But instead we couch that moral in a narrative, in a story, in a story featuring a whining annoying boy and a
from other people's trash?" Those are the kinds of things that I was thinking about when I was writing the book. I tried very hard not to be didactic about them, because nobody wants to read somebody standing up here, talking like me, about stuff like that. But it was very important for me to talk about it, because that, to me, is what the book is really about.
agency, all of these things, we felt have their own merit and are important. Because of the fundamental science below it as opposed to a didactic demonstration of this is solar power.
Or the final one, which is, I think, the darkest, which is that it's about a character that's overcoming their trauma or the trauma So how do you manage to balance that without the book becoming really didactic and being like a message from Caoilinn for the world,
it does not embrace the paradox. And that is, it puts it in these didactic intellectual terms that is not where anybody lives. And what we all care about is our version of Lucy and Jack, whether we're married or single, gay, straight, whatever it may be.
Thank God they were there to do it. with plot lines on some of these shows in ways that aren't didactic , and aren't heavy-handed,
I'm not one of these people that thinks that somebody from one particular background can't write about somebody from a background that's different. It's a hard line to walk because I can't stand reading overly didactic fiction.
So yeah, I'm grateful to this polar bear, which the locals in the library had named Barry White. Again, the first draft of the script was super-didactic .
Yeah, waterproof, right? You know, here's the thing. And we didn't put labels because I didn't want to have her instillation marred by didactic label copy.
But in fact, the way the typography works is there's a didactic element, that it slowly
There's no technical reason to have the system say it's responses in a calm, didactic tone of voice and have this head-like swirling graphics, suggesting
There's really no technical reason to have a system say its responses in a calm, didactic tone of voice.
There's the storytelling, and then there's the didactic exposition.
But in general, I think that one should be wary of being didactic , of manipulating results
But we don't know it until someone puts a frame around it, a didactic panel, and auctions it off.
I was going to say that again, not to be didactic , but it is useful to hear it twice.
So this young man, very passionate, very, very didactic
Even though the book is about what you eat, I'm just telling my story, because otherwise, you feel great-- you feel a bit didactic and finger wagging.
If the coach is going to tell you this is where your life should be going, it becomes a form of didactic teaching.
continue their roaring '20s parties into the '30s and '40s. The thing that you will find, and then moving forward, "The Didactic Bartender", 1934, "The Official Mixer's Manual" by Patrick Gavin Duffy and 1945-51 Townsend's "Bartender's Book." This is when these kind of crotchety bartenders who had been part of the golden age and ridden
I think one of the best sayings that we culled out from Fred is, "Setting rules," good rules, not harsh rules, "is one of the primary ways in which we show our love for others." Now, in a good organization you do it with your employees, not didactically, not necessarily autocratically. Next one please. "Play is the expression of creativity, and I," Fred believes, "is at the very root of our ability