Tag: Education

• Arthur Benjamin: Teach statistics before calculus (TED)

  

  Very few people actually use calculus in a conscious, meaningful way in their day-to-day lives. I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Benjamin on this. Statistics has become an extremely important life skill in today’s data-driven world.

  valsaksornchai

  October 10, 2014

  Economics, Learning, Talks

  algebra, analysis, arithmetic, Arthur Benjamin, Calculus, college, curriculum, daily life, data, discrete mathematics, Economics, Education, high school, Maths, probability, randomness, reward, risk, science, standard deviation, Statistics, subject, trends, uncertainty, university

• Labels: Useful Heuristics or Dangerous Stereotypes?

  

  They say love blinds and power corrupts. Well, I’m starting to think morality is pretty good at both. When I was depressed in early 2013, I began attending weekly CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) sessions in the hope that it would make me better. During one of these sessions, the therapist (counsellor? psychiatrist? I never quite…

  valsaksornchai

  March 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Economics, Life, Mind, Politics, Psychology, Thailand

  Americans, awareness, brain, CBT, cognition, Depression, doctors, Education, ignorant American, label, labelling, labels, moral, morality, philosophy, Politics, Psychology, stereotype, stereotypes, stereotyping, super computers, Thailand, world

• A Year in Paris: Part Two

  

  2009 If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll realise that it hasn’t quite been 4 years (from 2007). I did go back to Paris in 2011. So why am I telling you about 2009? Because 2009 is important. 2009 is the year everything changed. But what does 2009 have to do with Paris? Everything. Let me fill you in…

  valsaksornchai

  January 25, 2014

  Learning, Life, London, Paris, Self

  A-levels, admissions, choices, college, David Cameron, decisions, Economics, Education, ESPS, European Social and Political Studies, European Studies, Francois Hollande, French, grades, IEP, London, Oxford, Paris, philosophy, Politics, PPE, Sciences Po, Sciences Po Paris, studies, UCAS, university

• Coming Soon

  Update 09/02/14: here it is.

  valsaksornchai

  January 19, 2014

  Announcements

  Auschwitz, Birkenau, Education, Final Solution, Germany, History, Holocaust, Jewish, Jewish Question, Jews, Nazis, Nazism, Poland, visit, WWII

• An Educational Tale

  Let me tell you a story. It’s a story I tell often. So I was in high school* (this asterisk is an indication that there’s an explanatory note at the end of the post – in case you haven’t seen one before. I know. What arrogance.). I’m not sure what year it was. But I’m…

  valsaksornchai

  December 2, 2013

  Learning, Life, Photography, Reading

  D’Overbroeck’s College, Education, England, Essays, History, Multiple choice, Nazism, Oxford