To make democracy work we must be a notion of participants not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
The teacher must derive not only the capacity but the desire to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Traditional science assumes for the most part that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe stars galaxies sun moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is it uses a lot of fertilizer pesticides and water.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
In the US you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server the police can get it without showing you anything.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators are active not passive observers.
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace an observer who is aware of time's chariot aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
Knowledge is what we get when an observer preferably a scientifically trained observer provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
I guess I'm a very keen observer and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.
If eating out order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day keeping your portion size in check and stretching your dollar into two meals.
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings I now with a high sense of gratitude presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty the Creator and Preserver.