The Most Popular Alternative Education Philosophies
Every child is different, and often a mainstream education philosophy isn’t always suited as a ‘one size fits all’. There are many...
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Common Sense vs Scientific Knowledge & the Quest for "Truth"
A dive into the philosophy of Pragmatism developed by William James and whether our scientific understanding is our best guide to "truth".
EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION – JOHN DEWEY
HOMESCHOOLING | PHILOSOPHY | EDUCATION | John Dewey is one of America’s greatest philosophers, and one who took a particular interest in...
ADVICE TO TUTORS APPLYING FOR LONG-TERM POSITIONS
LONG-TERM POSITIONS | HOMESCHOOLING | ADVICE TO TUTORS Applications for our long-term positions are highly competitive: we normally...
AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY | BERTRAND RUSSELL | SCIENCE | “I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a...
HOW TO READ A POEM
ENGLISH LITERATURE | POETRY | Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a...
THE NATURE OF TIME
PHYSICS | PHILOSOPHY | THEOLOGY | William Brooke’s film The Nature of Time explores the physics and philosophy of time and whether what...
PARENTING AND THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
PARENTING | PSYCHOANALYSIS | FREUD | WINNICOTT | Parenting is much debated, generally with the aim of helping parents raise happy,...
WHY ONLY US - LANGUAGE AND EVOLUTION
LINGUISTICS | CHOMSKY | LANGUAGE | DARWIN | EVOLUTION | The questions of how language evolved, the nature of language and what language...
WHAT ACTUALLY IS A NUMBER? PLATO, PICTURE PROOFS & THE MATHEMATICAL REALM
PHILOSOPHY | MATHEMATICS | ANCIENT GREECE | What actually is a number? Do numbers and mathematical objects actually exist, or have they...
SKEPTICISM & TRUST IN SCIENCE
PHILOSOPHY | COVID-19 | SKEPTICISM | Over recent years, scientific institutions and journals have increasingly been expressing their...
RHETORIC BLOG SERIES - SPEAKING TO LARGE AUDIENCES
RHETORIC | PUBLIC SPEAKING | Public speaking is a craft which can only be mastered through practice and planning. In this series of blog...
USING MATHS TO SOLVE COVID TESTING
MATHEMATICS | COVID-19 | As the coronavirus pandemic rolls on into winter, countries around the globe are trying to optimise their...
OUR TOP TEN TED TALKS
EDUCATION | TECHNOLOGY | PHILOSOPHY | What Makes People Engage with Math | Grant Sanderson Grant Sanderson discusses looking past the...
ACHILLES & THE TORTOISE
GEOMTRIC PROGRESSIONS | INFINITE SEQUENCES | THE NATURE OF INFINITY The notion of infinity, and the problems that arise from it, both...
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