/edu/ - Education

Name
Email
Subject
Comment *
File	Select/drop/paste files here
* = required field	[▶ Show post options & limits] Confused? See the FAQ.

File: 1425761302228.png (334.66 KB, 500x600, 5:6, 1341256907949.png)

Scholar 03/07/15 (Sat) 20:48:22 No.310 [Reply]

What do you think of assignments where you have to work in pairs or groups?

10 posts omitted. Click reply to view.

Scholar 06/01/15 (Mon) 18:42:10 No.393

I doubt they know who is lower-achiver and who is not. But you probably will have to work with sloppy people at your future jobs too.

Scholar 07/01/15 (Wed) 04:02:05 No.416

I think students who are forced to work in pairs/groups should at least be able to choose their partners.

It was a pain to work with random fucks who don't pull their weight.

I remember my teacher in high school calling this "good life experience." Fuck that. I have more success working with people who I like and do their share of the work too.

Scholar 07/07/15 (Tue) 20:21:23 No.419

>>416

I liked random partners better because I almost always had either no friends in a class or an even number who all liked each other better than me and paired off amongst themselves. Random partners are less pleasant to work with but at least you keep your dignity.

Scholar 07/16/15 (Thu) 06:36:50 No.421

>>419

iktfb

Scholar 07/17/15 (Fri) 04:28:44 No.422

I personally like it because I'm a lazy fuck and need other people pushing me to not procrastinate and end up half-assing the assignment.

File: 1432204943931.png (11.19 KB, 250x173, 250:173, NIGGERS.png)

Scholar 05/21/15 (Thu) 10:42:23 No.381 [Reply]

Help /edu/. How do I stop getting retard-tier scores on the SAT?

2 posts omitted. Click reply to view.

Scholar 05/24/15 (Sun) 21:49:05 No.385

That's not good, you will need to practice a lot but also find someone who will correct it for you.

Is there anything particularly hard for you?

Scholar 06/09/15 (Tue) 18:22:09 No.402

Hijacking this thread with my own question, what difference is there in terms of knowledge required between the SAT and the ACT? I've only ever taken the ACT.

Scholar 06/11/15 (Thu) 19:56:01 No.404

>>402

SAT has no science.

Scholar 06/12/15 (Fri) 06:35:14 No.405

>>404

I was kind of looking for a content comparison, though, not just the literally most obvious difference between the tests.

Scholar 06/30/15 (Tue) 16:09:53 No.415

>>405

ACT, imo, is better because it focuses on your actual knowledge more than regurgitating obscure words and a basic five paragraph essay.

File: 1427223650191.jpg (60.79 KB, 520x551, 520:551, 1426417179485.jpg)

Note taking Scholar 03/24/15 (Tue) 19:00:52 No.345 [Reply]

How do you take your notes, /edu/?

Scholar 03/26/15 (Thu) 19:25:16 No.347

In a spiral-bound notebook, using a mechanical pencil. I find that writing things helps me retain more information vs. typing.

Scholar 03/26/15 (Thu) 21:00:21 No.348

>>347
I use spiral-bound notebooks too! You can take them away, collect all the used pages into one, and reassemble the empty ones.

What do you write down?

Scholar 03/26/15 (Thu) 21:32:44 No.349

I like to get physical copies of the things I read and preferably my own copy too so that I can make notes on the book itself. I highlight and underline important things, draw arrows and comments in the margins, and bookmark important pages.

That One Newfag 06/06/15 (Sat) 13:53:20 No.397

File: 1433598800991.jpg (2.7 MB, 4128x2322, 16:9, 20150606_094804[1].jpg)

For me, with my messy handwriting, it's important to keep a tiered, organized system of notes. Here's mine, and with that said, keep in mind that your notes ought to be flexible, and one hardly needs to follow something like this to a tee.

Scholar 06/29/15 (Mon) 17:31:41 No.414

File: 1435599101691.jpg (104.71 KB, 960x1280, 3:4, aj.jpg)

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2007/12/05/how-to-take-notes-like-an-alpha-geek-plus-my-2600-date-challenge/

File: 1411895293538.jpg (1.05 MB, 1150x1476, 575:738, Old Map (1).jpg)

Anonymous 09/28/14 (Sun) 09:08:13 No.29 [Reply]

Dumping my collection of old world maps

6 posts and 9 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

Anonymous 09/28/14 (Sun) 09:22:02 No.36

File: 1411896122714.jpg (4.11 MB, 2700x1821, 900:607, Old Map (12).jpg)

Anonymous 09/28/14 (Sun) 16:40:02 No.38

>>31
>>35
These are really cool. Do you have more?

Anonymous 09/29/14 (Mon) 00:22:34 No.39

File: 1411950154309.jpg (4.24 MB, 2500x1784, 625:446, Old Map (13).jpg)

>>38
I'll dump a few a day to try and give the board a bit more life.

Anonymous 09/29/14 (Mon) 00:26:30 No.40

File: 1411950390265.jpg (4.56 MB, 2700x2361, 900:787, Old Map (14).jpg)

>>39

Scholar 06/19/15 (Fri) 03:06:44 No.410

I don't know why, but I just love how California is an island on some of these.

File: 1433895544126.png (249.24 KB, 491x509, 491:509, ~~~The Banana.png)

Anonymous 06/10/15 (Wed) 00:19:04 No.403 [Reply]

I have never actually won a single one of these threads. Everytime I see that comically anthropomorphized banana holding his peel in a suggestive manner, likening the peel to clothes and his peel-less nature to human nudity, I bust up laughing. This happens every time, no matter where I am, be it the house or the bus or in class. Sometimes I laugh just thinking about it. This is a dark memory but a few months back I had just gotten done with a fit of laughter caused by one of these hilarious threads. Suddenly my mom walks in and she's crying. I attempted to suppress the growing urge to laugh but it was getting more difficult. Face red, tears running down her aging face, mom grabs my shoulders and says "Your father's dead."

It was at that moment that I couldn't hold back anymore. I burst into a banana-induced fit of laughter, but the horrible news drew tears to my eyes. I laughed while I cried, tears streaming down my wide open grin, memories of daddy resurfacing and being melded and combined with the naked banana.

I ldost two things that night.

Scholar 06/12/15 (Fri) 19:08:20 No.406

But how does this relate to the Sarmatian assimilation of the Scythian tribes?

TEST Scholar 06/06/15 (Sat) 03:09:54 No.394 [Reply]

/TEST/ SAID THIS WAS A GOOD PLACE

Scholar 06/06/15 (Sat) 03:10:11 No.395

Scholar 06/06/15 (Sat) 07:34:51 No.396

Please keep the tests in >>>/test/!

File: 1432780005328.png (1.64 MB, 1920x1080, 16:9, 1432755816004.png)

Scholar 05/28/15 (Thu) 02:26:45 No.388 [Reply]

Should I get my bachelors degree?

Background:

I work as an inspector.

I'm already certified in things that matter in this job.

I'm working on a Technical Associate for a formal education in my field.

I'm clocking about 70k a year.

I'm on the fence about it because I greatly enjoy what I do and there is still so much to learn here but a Bachelors(ME) would open a lot of access to materials sciences and work down the line. The plan is to take my math/physics courses in CC and at least see if I'm cut out for it.

Even so I've seen the schedules at the university and realistically I'd have to quit for at least 2-3 years and its hard seeing as how much I've had to fight to get to where I am today only to give it up for an even more uncertain future.

I dunno, I'm tired of school and would like to focus on my job and social life for once but at the same time I don't want to be that guy who regrets not doing what needed to be done in his early 20's. But at the same time I don't want to be going part time to school for another fucking 6 years. I want to enjoy my life too.

What should I do?

Scholar 05/28/15 (Thu) 10:56:18 No.389

Fuck that shit. You said you're tired of school. You got a good thing going for you. If you want to learn, you can do it without having to take time off and go to a university.

Scholar 05/28/15 (Thu) 10:59:32 No.390

>>389

Enjoy your life while you're healthy, anon. See and experience some shit.

Scholar 05/28/15 (Thu) 13:33:32 No.391

>>389

Nothing is safe in this day and age. But yeah, I'm tired. I enjoy the classes at my community college but once you jump into university it's a whole other ball game. I'm just going to take my math and physics courses after I finish my associate here and continue working for awhile.

I'll see where I'm at in life when I'm 25.

>>390

Yeah, one of the big things I want to do is move out by 25 but once I move out I don't want to move back in and if I do decide to get a bachelor's it's just going to be all the harder. At the same time I don't want to be 30 still living at home.

One of the reasons I'm so on the fence about it is because in the field I work in there are so many people without degrees making it just fine. Even without much in terms of certifications. Or really anything aside from experience. A bachelor's would be a huge step up but not in this job. The associates and certs would basically max me out in terms of education needed.

I feel like a hypocrite too, for all the talk of me wanting no part of a university I still feel compelled to go. I don't want to do it for vanity reasons either which is what I sometimes think my real reason for wanting it is.

File: 1416421605870.jpg (20.18 KB, 273x400, 273:400, Politics-and-Ideology-in-E….jpg)

Book Thread! Anonymous 11/19/14 (Wed) 18:26:45 No.71 [Reply]

ITT: Post what you're reading.

This is a book on political thought in the time leading up to the English Civil War. I'm half way through.

5 posts and 1 image reply omitted. Click reply to view.

Scholar 01/30/15 (Fri) 02:29:16 No.157

File: 1422584956070.jpg (23.43 KB, 220x315, 44:63, thesoundandthefury.jpg)

>>71
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner. It's really excellent but can be a bit dense at times, so I'm considering going on a Vonnegut kick afterwards. Recently picked up an anthology of his.

Miaw 05/17/15 (Sun) 02:51:50 No.377

File: 1431831110372.jpg (44.03 KB, 318x471, 106:157, 2[1].jpg)

Scholar 05/19/15 (Tue) 15:21:10 No.378

File: 1432048870170.jpg (1.83 MB, 1539x1218, 513:406, Jacques-Louis_David,_Le_Se….jpg)

I'm first getting some background into Stoicism and then I'll be reading The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Enchiridion of Epictetus. I'm aware the latter is very short but I plan to study both and perhaps live my life (partially) as a stoic. If I get a kick out of it I might as well start with the Greeks. I have a list of books that I want to read but mainly I want to build an effective habit before going to University and for Programming.

The picture isn't related.

Scholar 05/23/15 (Sat) 19:21:31 No.384

>>155

>New World Translation

former Jehovah's Witness here, don't fucking read it, unless you want a absurdly biased translation of the bible that constantly bends to the beliefs of 6 old businessmen sitting in a big Brooklyn building

get a NASB or ESV translation instead

Scholar 05/25/15 (Mon) 07:55:44 No.387

>>155

dafuq is Moriarty's Police Law?

File: 1430403867164.jpg (97.09 KB, 1920x1080, 16:9, 3029836-poster-p-codecadem….jpg)

www.codecademy.com Scholar 04/30/15 (Thu) 14:24:27 No.367 [Reply]

If anyone wants to learn some essential web design and development skills, I highly recommend this site. I've refreshed my HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills and I'm learning jQuery now. Then I'll most likely go for Ruby, then Angular JS.

Scholar 04/30/15 (Thu) 18:25:38 No.368

If you are interested in programming in general, I suggest How to Design Programs:

http://www.htdp.org/

It's pretty good for beginners and freely available.

File: 1429468227910.jpg (89.39 KB, 600x640, 15:16, 1422977549892.jpg)

Time Management Scholar 04/19/15 (Sun) 18:30:26 No.362 [Reply]

How do you manage your time?

Scholar 04/20/15 (Mon) 17:15:53 No.363

I don't, keep putting off assignments just to realize once I'm doing them late that they not as bad as I thought they would be, the reasons that made me dread them so long, like the subject end up being somewhat interesting to me, because deep inside I like to learn, but I let everything for the very last moment so I end up doing a half assed work.

Other threads say you need discipline, to which I agree, just wish I could garner a lot more of it when it comes to time management and getting shit done.

Scholar 04/23/15 (Thu) 07:47:06 No.364

I jack off constantly and sleep a lot. And then I ponder my own existence and suicide for several hours until I finally start working.

I somehow end up finishing everything early.

Scholar 04/24/15 (Fri) 04:37:49 No.365

>>364

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

Scholar 04/25/15 (Sat) 15:12:30 No.366

I have a list where I keep the assignments and their deadlines and such. Then I make a new list each day for that day only, and try to finish it by the end of the day.

It works for me, I rarely have to do all nighters or similar because of deadlines.

File: 1426736238013.jpg (17.94 KB, 281x254, 281:254, 56.jpg)

Classical Education General Scholar 03/19/15 (Thu) 03:37:18 No.336 [Reply]

So /edu/ what are your thoughts on Classic Education?

Any resources that would help in pursuing a classical education?

Personally, I've been looking into it for a while and can't seem to find a really good resource for Adult "re-education" in all of the classic pursuits (Latin, Ancient Greek, English, Music, Astronomy, Arithmetic, theology, history, etc.) Closest I can find is a bunch of home school resources, but that seems a tad excessive.

I am really infatuated with the triumvirate approach as is presented here:

https://www.circeinstitute.org/resources/what-classical-education

http://www.welltrainedmind.com/classical-education/

>inb4 christfag
>inb4 /pol/tard

Scholar 03/19/15 (Thu) 14:02:42 No.337

Resource dump and bump:

How To Read A Book by Charles van Doren and Mortimer J. Adler

http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Intelligent-Touchstone/dp/0671212095

10 good books for starting independent classical education (comments have some good suggestions as well):

http://listverse.com/2007/12/07/top-10-books-for-a-classical-education/

The Academy of Classical Languages

http://academyofclassicallanguages.com/

This is all I could really find as being semi reliable and concise.

Scholar 04/13/15 (Mon) 03:29:22 No.361

File: 1428895762491.jpg (44.82 KB, 400x356, 100:89, Trivium[1].jpg)

Trivium!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yVk6SxzfzA

File: 1428293081682.gif (3.66 MB, 581x483, 83:69, 1428195878199.gif)

Anon's Book Collection Scholar 04/06/15 (Mon) 04:04:42 No.358 [Reply]

https://github.com/bibanon/bibanon/wiki/Books

Scholar 04/06/15 (Mon) 12:57:58 No.359

That whole bibanon project is very cool, thanks for sharing!

File: 1415169044817.jpg (7.56 KB, 162x312, 27:52, babyskull.jpg)

Anonymous 11/05/14 (Wed) 06:30:44 No.59 [Reply]

> Tutoring autistic 3rd grader
> Attention span all over the place
> Asks when the break time is or waves to his mother
> Whenever asked to refer to a number he starts counting from one
> Cannot or will not subtract/add on their own
> I feel like shit when he gets tired, or when he throws a tantrum

What's a good way to hold his attention span, and take him on a magical math adventure?

10 posts and 3 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

Scholar 02/06/15 (Fri) 01:23:52 No.227

>>222
1. Schools teach math the wrong way
2. People never really learn it
3. People avoid things that remind them of their failure / make them feel stupid

Scholar 02/06/15 (Fri) 10:39:05 No.234

>>222
I understand b). Which part is confusing for you?

You could try rewriting the square roots as x^(1/2) and see if that helps.

Scholar 02/07/15 (Sat) 22:24:21 No.245

>>102
I've got a sneaky suspicion they didn't have a real control group.

Scholar 03/28/15 (Sat) 18:52:44 No.354

>>222
>The way she handled it was sort of like was like she was raped by math as a child and never wanted to see math again.
Isn't it exactly what's happening in schools?

Scholar 04/05/15 (Sun) 03:52:11 No.357

Work his interests or personal obsessions into it somehow.

File: 1411834741456.gif (972.74 KB, 500x282, 250:141, norippe_study.gif)

Anonymous 09/27/14 (Sat) 16:19:01 No.28 [Reply]

>can't force myself to study
Help!

24 posts and 2 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.

Scholar 03/23/15 (Mon) 05:55:21 No.340

>>28
Compare yourself to your friends and see how behind you are compared to them

Scholar 03/23/15 (Mon) 05:56:01 No.341

>>339
I agree, student life is anxious enough without making it harder for yourself.

Scholar 03/28/15 (Sat) 18:38:27 No.352

File: 1427567906273.png (776.43 KB, 7100x4999, 7100:4999, howtogetmotivated-7100x500….png)

>>109
>not posting the superior full size version which is much easier to read has over 17 times more pixels while being only ~240KB bigger
Why?

Scholar 03/28/15 (Sat) 18:41:04 No.353

>>352
forgot "and" between "read" and "has", fuck

my excuse is ADD

Scholar 03/29/15 (Sun) 11:10:40 No.356

>>352
Didn't know there's a bigger version, thanks for posting it!

File: 1427104548688.jpg (536.6 KB, 1920x1200, 8:5, 141955931876.jpg)

board circle Scholar 03/23/15 (Mon) 09:55:48 No.342 [Reply]

Would /edu/ like to join a board circle with /skill/ ?
What is a board circle?
Back on the oldish days of the internet, small website/forum owners would advertise each other in order to gain more traffic, and this can be done in 8chan.
What is /skill/ ?
/skill/ is a board where people teach and learn, much like this one, but our board has a unique format of doing this. Instead of doing things by subject, we are more like the /r/ of learning. It is hard to explain on my end, but I suggest you check it out.
>picture very unrelated
PS: If you need to contact me privately message my email

Scholar 03/25/15 (Wed) 18:05:42 No.346

So, should I just mention you in a sticky, or how would it work?

Delete Post [ File] Password

Reason [Global]