by Sung Jin Kim, on October 16th, 2012
After I read this article about Bilingual advatanges, I realized the author felt the same when I first came to China. The langauges were different and writing character was very diffilcult indeed. Also, the part which being a bilingual person has less possiblity to get Alzhemier’s disease stood out to me. This was because, [...]
by Sung Jin Kim, on September 14th, 2012
I think peoples’ reaction towards truman made his life fake. I say this because, when Truman reversed the situation people who try to trick him became confused. Also, when Truman appeared on television, peoples’ reaction didn’t convey any emotion towards him.
Moreover, I think truman is fake, because people could easily manipulate one’s life, [...]
by Justin Bougher, on September 4th, 2012
After our first few in-school sessions of TOK, I was honestly expecting the subject to be a fluff class, but after the conference I began looking forward to the course. When debating and questioning ‘why’ we had knowledge or a lack there of, my mind raced. The big questions have always interested me. Philosophy, [...]
by Albert, on June 17th, 2012
It is very hard to distinguish biased from opinions, but generally former refers to a strongly expressed opinions while latter refers to just simple subjective expressions. However, when we think about it down to deep , we realize that there is a major problem distinguishing one from another.
Personally, I would say biased and [...]
by Albert, on June 1st, 2012
In last TOK class we discussed about the math and if the math would be applied same in every part of universe. Actually, this is one of the axiom that math, mostly physics theory is written upon. Most of the theories assume that mathematics and the rules we use on this planet works just [...]
by Albert, on May 24th, 2012
It was very helpful to see others presentations. I learned a lot about organization of the presentation. I think many of us lacked including me lacked specific aspects that the mark scheme requires such as different point of view. I think many presentations pretty much ended up too focusing on their own point of [...]
by Charles Goh, on October 26th, 2011
There is no doubt that every single language in the world has evolved, and will evolve in the future. We discussed this in class, but I would like to bring this up again in the blog because I did not mention this in class. (I thought it would be easier to understand this on [...]
by Charles Goh, on October 5th, 2011
The idea involving the cold and the warm drink is controversial. Whether or not the warm cup or the cold cup brings out a more positive reaction is up to the receiver to decide. It could be that more of them preferred a warm drink to a cold drink. Or did the climate at [...]
by Charles Goh, on September 24th, 2011
Although we cannot trace back in time to the day languages were created, we should understand that the creation of language is gradual and ever-changing.The Chinese language and the English language were not created in a day. It was through many years of attempts at communication that people accepted a set form of language. [...]
by Mr. MacKnight, on February 18th, 2011
After skimming through the posts and comment that have appeared so far, all I can say is . . .
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by zPrevious Student, on January 25th, 2011
Alright fine, so I think that I misunderstood the question completely and the way I was going to write the essay was completely not correct. So now with some corrections, I will write the essay with Picasso’s original thoughts, ‘Art is a lie that brings us nearer to the truth.’ and I am going [...]
by zPrevious Student, on October 26th, 2010
So far I’ve been a little slow on ideas… my favorite one so far is the Knowledge Issue of “How do we choose our friends?” and I got this idea from a yahoo article that said Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones actually got really fed up with Mick Jagger throughout the history of [...]
by Mr. MacKnight, on March 17th, 2010
In response to another post on the IBO’s forum for TOK teachers, Greta Timmers, a former colleague of mine who teaches in The Netherlands, had this response, which may help students understand what is being asked for:
Criterion D asks “how the question could be approached from different perspectives and how their implications should [...]
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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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