#polymath

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

Giving a presentation is a very important skill in life. Generally, it's great to have good ideas, and you will need them. However, you also need to communicate them to other people for them to really have value. The medieval educators understood this very well so they made the entire grammar part of the trivium focuse

A key aspect of expanding our knowledge is asking questions from those we identify as being more knowledgeable than us in a particular topic. This is a key aspect of information communication as it allows us to directly target gaps in our knowledge. The fact though that people can sometimes decline to answer a question

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

As a blog dedicated to the discipline of polymath, I hope most of the readers have at least a basic knowledge of what a polymath is. If you do, you can skip this section. If not, keep reading on.A polymath is, in short, someone who has a wide range of knowledge from a variety of topics. This doesn't necessarily mean ma