by Charles Goh, on February 27th, 2012
When trying to determine my favourite places to live in, there are 3 things that are most important:
People – I would love to be surrounded by people with similar interests and a similar level of motivation and ambition. These are the people that i can learn from the most Location – Convenient, but [...]
by Charles Goh, on November 2nd, 2011
One Man or One Million? Tragedy vs Statistic?
I came across this a couple of times in several sites. It appears that Steve Job’s death has attracted huge amounts of attention, to the extent that some used his name and his importance to compare public reactions to different kinds of people. The interesting [...]
by Charles Goh, on October 2nd, 2011
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477023a.html
This isn’t exactly related to what we were talking about in the last few sessions, but this topic has popped up in my science news, so I thought I’d talk about it.
The question here is: Are we really making subconscious decisions before even being aware of them, and are [...]
by zPrevious Student, on January 14th, 2011
In class, we read about the story of Oedipus, the guy who lived to kill his father, marry his mother and then gouge out his eye to be sent into exile. So was it actually possible for Oedipus to change his future or was it set in stone? Mr. MacKnight compared it to watching [...]
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Important Dates Y12 Orals: May 22, May 31, June 5, June 7.
June 11: Y12 TOK Day
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"The arts, ideas, natural beauty, and good conversation provide lasting pleasure."
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"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it."
—Werner Vogels
Your Daily Chinese Character
Comments . . . . . . are open only to students of the class, but if you are a non-student and would like to comment you can email Mr. MacKnight at ericmacknight AT mac DOT com.
Is TOK a Philosophy Course? YES, in the sense that the name of the course itself is in any dictionary effectively synonymous with "epistemology."
NO, in the sense that IB-specific ToK has many philosophical elements, but is not just philosophy. ToK is at root an interdiscipinary course that allows students to become aware of how the six subject-groups on the corners on the Diploma hexagon overlap and integrate. The interdisciplinary aspect is the crucial thing . . . .
—Bruce Bartlett
Le Collège français
Toronto, Canada
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"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
—Steven Wright
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Webs & Chains Natura in reticulum sua genera connexit,
non in catenam: homines non possunt nisi
catenam sequi, cum non plura simul
possint sermone exponere.
Nature knits up her kinds in a network, not
in a chain; but men can follow only by
chains because their language can’t handle
several things at once.
—Albrecht von Haller (tr. Howard Nemerov)
[Epigraph to Nemerov's poem, "The Dependencies"]
About This Blog Until June 2011, this TOK blog was managed solely by Eric MacKnight. Beginning in the fall of 2011, its name changed to "DCSZ TOK Class Blog", and since then it has been used by all TOK students at Dulwich College Suzhou. The lead teacher is Julie Connah, assisted by Alan Connah and Eric MacKnight. Content posted before August 2011 was written by Eric MacKnight and his students at Suzhou Singapore International School. In August 2012 John Fitzgerald replaced Alan Connah in the DCSZ TOK team.
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