Buddhist education is a movement that began a long time ago in temple schools throughout South and East Asia and has only recently evolved into more official, modern institutions. Since we don't have much experience with the subject, we were helped by Neil Amas, the director of Panyaden, a Buddhi
Maybe there is right and wrong, good and bad. But maybe not. Maybe it's all a question of perspective. A video to think about it. Special thanks to our Patreons: Avigail, Badrah, Cedric Wang, David Markham, Denis Kraus, Don Bone, Esther Chiang, Eva Marie Koblin, John Zhang, Julien Dumesnil, Mathis
In 1983, the American psychologist Howard Gardner published a book [Frames of Mind] with the theory that there are nine types of intelligence: Special thanks to our Patreons: Avigail, Badrah, Cedric Wang, David Markham, Denis Kraus, Don Bone, Esther Chiang, Eva Marie Koblin, John Zhang, Julien Dum
Bloom's taxonomy is a tool that teachers or students can use to sort and organize learning objectives. Their most popular version is based on the cognitive area and assumes that learning should be structured from easy to difficult in the following 6 steps: 1. Remember 2. Understand 3. Apply 4. A
Note: The correct term is "Extravert" "Extrovert" is colloquial and can also be used according to the Duden. Introversion and extraversion are terms coined by the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland in the 1920s. According to Jung, an extrovert seeks intensive contact with the outside worl
Sapolsky's theory of human behavioral biology states that behind every behavior there is a biological process that is the product of natural selection. If Sapolsky is right, it means that in order to truly understand human behavior, we would need to know exactly what happens in the brain's 100 tril
A habit is a set thought pattern that leads to automated behavior. This has the advantage that we don't have to keep rethinking what needs to be done. It just happens and can be a good thing. But a bad habit can also harm us, or keep us from developing. But we can learn and unlearn you, like every
Skin in the game is an economic and ethical principle that states that if things go wrong, those who want to profit from their activity should also lose. The principle is also important for learning, skill building, and human development. After all, if you want to learn without taking the risk of fa
In the 1980s, the government of Singapore decided to stop importing foreign textbooks and instead rebuild the world's best math curriculum from scratch. Since then, Singaporeans have been studying fewer concepts in greater detail, following Bruner's guideline. A special thank you goes to our suppor
Freud's theory of psychosexual development states that we go through five critical phases in the course of our growing up. Our sex drive, which Freud called the libido, is concentrated in a different erogenous zone at each stage. The phases are called: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. If
We can only remember certain moments or movies because they have been stored in our memory under the influence of emotions. When we win or fail, cry or celebrate, we learn quickly, intensively and a lot. But when we are afraid, our brain limits our ability to think. And for good reason. Anxiety is
What if morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior humans to hold back the few superior humans? In this final part of our Sprouts special with Stephen Hicks, we examine Nietzsche's explanation of how ethics evolves and the consequences for master types living in a world ruled by slave m
