Category Archives: Academic

Education Survey Results: Professors

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Tyler

As part of my series On Education, I obtained the opinions of many people (via this survey, which is still open if you wish to contribute) as to their opinions on the following questions: In your opinion, what is the purpose(s) of a Bachelor’s degree? Do you think that Bachelor’s degrees today are awarded appropriately [...] Continue reading →

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On Evaluations

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Tyler

This is the third instalment in my series On Education. My previous posts have included On The Current Education System and Knowledge and Intelligence. Again, I would like to discuss two of the questions I had asked in this survey on education (which is still open, by the way, if you would like to fill [...] Continue reading →

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On The Current Education System

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Tyler

This is the sequel to my blog on Knowledge and Intelligence in my series On Education. In this post I would like to discuss two more questions that I had asked in my survey. Those two questions are: In your opinion, what is the purpose(s) of a Bachelor’s degree? Do you think that Bachelor’s degrees [...] Continue reading →

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Knowledge and Intelligence

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Tyler

Reading break has finally arrived and I now have time to complete what I have been putting off. That is, I finally have time to enter my blog series On Education. I’m quite excited about this because I got to read quite a few responses and now I can share my opinions. However, before I [...] Continue reading →

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Notices of Interest

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Tyler

Here are some interesting events/notices that have recently come to my attention. Hopefully they’ll be of interest to you guys as well! Learning, Memorization, & Education – TN, JG, NP, NF 12:30 pm :: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 @LSK 464 Last week, NF, NP, JG, and I gave a presentation on the microscopic/biological aspects of [...] Continue reading →

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Learning & Education Presentation (Part 1)

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Tyler

So tomorrow (Tuesday, February 1), NF, NP, JG, and I will be giving a presentation to our ISCI 300 class on both learning and education. It will be the first of two (the second happening next week same day, same time) presentations on the topic. Tomorrow’s presentation will have a focus on the microscopic and [...] Continue reading →

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Course Evaluations Link?

Posted on April 4, 2010 by

Did anyone get the link for where you can actually do course evaluations? The email I received was missing it.
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Free Literary Stuff!

Posted on March 28, 2010 by

For those of you interested in literary journals, there is a table between Buchanan D and E on the ground floor that has piles of CanLit just waiting for you to collect them.
All new copies of old issues, and free!
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Continuing the ‘Lost’ Journey

Posted on March 23, 2010 by

Hmm, my Blog Squad avatar seems to have disappeared from my front page. This is a little disconcerting, but not enough to push me to find out why. School is ridiculously busy at the moment (as it always is at this time of year).
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In your third year, you don’t know that you know…

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

This is something I once heard (in Chinese):
In your first year of university, you don’t know that you don’t know.
In your second year, you know that you don’t know.
In your third year, you don’t know that you know.
In your fourth year, you know that you know.
And that, my friends, would describe my university education perfectly.
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