Archive for high school
Charlie, the next generation [cover]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags 7 janvier 2015, anniversary, birthday cake, Charlie Hebdo, cover, France, freedom of religion or belief, freedom of speech, fundamentalism, high school, Je suis Charlie, religions, terrorism on January 7, 2025 by xi'an
vous avez quatre heures…
Posted in Books, Kids, University life with tags Baccalauréat, French education ministry, high school, lycée, national exam, Nature, philosophy, State, truth on June 18, 2024 by xi'an
Pisa leans even further
Posted in Books, Kids with tags curriculum, high school, high school mathematics, inconsistency, Le Monde, OECD, PISA, reformation, undergraduates, Université Paris Dauphine on December 24, 2023 by xi'an
Nous continuerons, Professeur.
Posted in Kids, pictures with tags Emmanuel Macron, France, French history, high school, La Sorbonne, Panthéon, Paris, religions, teaching on October 24, 2020 by xi'an
“Nous continuerons, Professeur. Avec tous les instituteurs et professeurs de France, nous enseignerons l’histoire, ses gloires comme ses vicissitudes. Nous ferons découvrir la littérature, la musique, toutes les œuvres de l’âme et de l’esprit. Nous aimerons de toutes nos forces le débat, les arguments raisonnables, les persuasions aimables. Nous aimerons la science et ses controverses. Comme vous, nous cultiverons la tolérance. Comme vous, nous chercherons à comprendre, sans relâche, et à comprendre encore davantage cela qu’on voudrait éloigner de nous. Nous apprendrons l’humour, la distance. Nous rappellerons que nos libertés ne tiennent que par la fin de la haine et de la violence, par le respect de l’autre.”
Emmanuel Macron, 21 October 2020
philosophy at the 2015 Baccalauréat
Posted in Books, Kids with tags Air France, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Baccalauréat, Bayesian foundations, David Hume, exam, finals, high school, miracles, philosophy, Scotland on June 18, 2015 by xi'an[Here is the pre-Bayesian quote from Hume that students had to analyse this year for the Baccalauréat:]
The maxim, by which we commonly conduct ourselves in our reasonings, is, that the objects, of which we have no experience, resembles those, of which we have; that what we have found to be most usual is always most probable; and that where there is an opposition of arguments, we ought to give the preference to such as are founded on the greatest number of past observations. But though, in proceeding by this rule, we readily reject any fact which is unusual and incredible in an ordinary degree; yet in advancing farther, the mind observes not always the same rule; but when anything is affirmed utterly absurd and miraculous, it rather the more readily admits of such a fact, upon account of that very circumstance, which ought to destroy all its authority. The passion of surprise and wonder, arising from miracles, being an agreeable emotion, gives a sensible tendency towards the belief of those events, from which it is derived.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,
