Who you think you are is who you become. This may sound new age, but it is not. Many of the great philosophers we know have taught of the same concept, and due to its practicality, logic and application, the value of such construct becomes ever more significant to the times. In a world that sees [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Mirror Mirror on the Wall Who’s the Failure of them All?
Posted: June 30, 2011 in culture, EducationTags: changing self-image, life choices, life crisis, life transformation, mindset, self-transformation
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Language and Knowledge
Posted: June 19, 2011 in EducationTags: understanding realities through language
In what other form do we come to know knowledge, except for language? Arts, numbers, objects, patterns: are they not systematic forms of expression that we identify to be signs for what they signify? Our understanding of reality are represented in signs which we also understand as language, for language is a signifier. Everything in [...]
From Speak Reading to Speed Reading?
Posted: June 14, 2011 in culture, EducationTags: how to read faster, improving reading, reading proficiency, reading speed and comprehension
It surprised me to find data that do not seem to correspond with the theories on reading and comprehension. Reading experts believe that comprehension is positively related to reading rate. That the faster one reads, comprehension also increases with it. A bunch of freshman students I have now batted at an average a reading rate [...]
