For the last three generations it has become fashionable to be relativists about the notion of truth. Not surprisingly, this has resulted in a downgrading of science relative to allegedly intuitive, esoteric and non-empirical forms of knowing. Of the popularity of...
by Norman Bernard New technologies have, in my opinion, given us unprecedented opportunities for the good. I am a beneficiary of them in my professional life. I could never even as a young adult have envisaged that I would give lessons in which the participants were...
The more I teach students preparing for International AS and A levels in English… … the more aware I become of how inadequately the curriculum is taught by teachers and institutions switching from the NSC for the first time. I have also become aware, both...
“The conscious mind is like a gigantic camera with the ego directing the view and focus”. Jane Roberts “Nature of Personal Reality” If you observe your thoughts, you will notice how like attracts like: a positive memory will tend to recall other associated thoughts...
The Highlands Ability Battery (HAB) By Diana Ritchie Have you ever noticed that when you happily do certain tasks, jobs, activities it does not feel like work but rather like pleasure? No one needs to pay you – you would happily do them for free! We often call these...
South Africa writes the National Senior Certificate (NSC) based on the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) for Grades R-12. Its purpose is to give “expression to the knowledge, skills and values worth learning in South African schools.”[1] This is not much different...