#education

Anyone coming to this website will be able to see that I love learning and studying. For me, there's something magical about discovering a whole new topic. Whole subject areas never before considered become thrust into view, usually from only a short text. Once the seed is planted, ideas sprout oh so easily.Yet, what's

This week I read a short speech delivered by Dorothy L. Sayers titled The Lost Tools of Learning. This has been reprinted many times owing to the poignant things detailed by her. The overall gist of the speech is that there are some tools in education that are of massive benefits to students that have not been used sin

How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren is a classic text. I have emphasised many times how important reading is to the Polymath, and no source is better than this book for how to read a book. I will start with the summary for those who want a top line overview or those seeking a quick refresherSt

Polymath simply is not the mode of education in the modern world. Most people are educated only very narrowly into one single field. Specialisation is the name of the game. We can see the reasons for this: jobs are specialised, and we need to be prepared for them. It's also challenging to be a polymath now, since there