![]() They said without a doubt they were better prepared than 99% of other students. This was a group of kids who were at Harvard and Stanford and everywhere in between. ![]() Keane Mossman, Indiana University A couple of years ago I asked a large group of friends if they felt prepared for college and what class at NC helped them the most. I found that I was much much much more prepared than the majority of the students. TOK really gave me a crazy perspective when analyzing texts and debating them. I've taken some philosophy classes and in depth political analysis classes already and basically owned them. Anna Boch, Harvard University I'm double majoring in political science and criminal justice. I really do appreciate what TOK has done for me. If you can make it through the beginning of junior year, you're golden. Plus, TOK is generally a heck of a lot of fun. And, being able to write critically off the top of your head is pretty much what your have to do on all your non-math/science exams. Marissa Hampton, University of California-Irvine TOK is the best class you can take in high school. Olaf College Tell all your IB students TOK is the one thing from IB that you will most definitely use in college! I certainly have and I am so happy I was exposed to something like TOK before college. Just thought you should know as you begin to plant that questioning seed inside the minds of your new class that your last crop was successful, that even in another country there is no place for your students to run or hide and that even the quiet ones will fall. It got the little TOK voice in my head whirring. It got me talking about perception back at my hotel room. It got me to thinking what other slight misperceptions of the world could have caused me and others to do. They gave me a perfectly accurate view of the world save for tint, and that exception influenced my actions greatly. I got up only to find it was in fact not time to go but at least half an hour early. ![]() It indicated a nearing sunset thus, it was time to go. Fred Hendricks III, Indiana University As I was sitting in Mexico, waiting for the VBS my youth group was running to end, I noticed the hue of the sky. Studies class, and it reminded me greatly of TOK. Benson Tucker, Brown University A quote by Rousseau was brought up in my Intro to Itnl. Spending one class surveying Kant would not only reveal to ToKers the joys of philosophy and the inevitable narrowness of their perspective, it would also provide some support against the arrogant materialists. Although I realize that ToK isn't a philosophical survey course, I can't help but see my youth as one of privation for lack of Kant. You should recommend its 400 dense (both in words and concepts per square inch) pages of 1920's ornate and pristine prose to any exceptional student if they start now, it would supplement their ToK experience and undoubtedly imbue them with remarkable writing ability. Alley Murphy I'm finishing the last 20 pages of the marathon that is Will Durant's Story of Philosophy. I hope all is well with you and your classes at North Central and thanks again for two years of one of the best classes I ever took. Something tells me I am already very well prepared for this course thanks to two years of thinking in one class. Today, when I went to open my links to my required reading for my Intro to International Studies, I laughed out loud as I read the title of the second article we had to read: Epistemology: How You Know What You Know. Other ideas were that the relationship is better represented by a line (language had to turn into thought to become perception and vice versa), and that language could directly lead to perception.Īny different ideas of how the relationship between these three should be defined/explained? Or does anyone agree with the ideas we already came up with? When we joined with the other group, some people didn't agree with what we had come up with. Here's what the majority of my group came up with (we defined "lead to" as one thing coming before the other, and "affect" as one thing making someone reconsider what they thought of or viewed before ).ġ) the relationship between language, thought, and perception can be best described by drawing them in a triangle/circle.Ģ) thought can lead to language and perceptionģ) perception can lead to language and thoughtĤ) language can lead to thought, but not perceptionĥ) all have an impact on/affect the others We talked for a while, but couldn't really come up with relationship that everyone agreed to. My group had to talk about the relationship between language, thought, and perception, and to try and define how they were related. Perkins divided us up into 4 small groups and discuss a topic he gave us.
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