Importance of Informal Education

As known by people in education sector, education by itself is a really big term and covers almost all aspects of human life. That’s why education has to be broken down into three main types including ‘formal’, ‘non-formal’, and ‘informal’. In brief the definition and characteristics of each type of education [...]

The end of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)

Since Tsunami stroke Japan, people around the world have been talking about the world running into its end. In Cambodia, people have had many discussions about the world, but the theme is quite consistent on the fact that the world is coming to its end. While young people are discussing that [...]

College preparation: how to prepare for university study

When I was freshly out of high school in 2004 at the age of 17, I was really unsure about my life and did not like the state at all. Based on my senior high school’s results, I was neither bad nor good. I got a ‘C’ grade for my overall band score. [...]

Expand your horizon by your vocabulary

One of Wittgenstein’s famous quote is “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world”.

Personally, I can’t agree with his philosophy and implication in the quote more. I’ve read many works by Wittgenstein, and I like them a lot. He is a great Austrian philosopher.

Two Self Development stages

In the afternoon of March 21, 2011, I happened to talk to one of my long-time friends from primary school to secondary school to now. (I’d like to keep his name anonymous). In fact, since high school, we have not been so far away from one another, yet we just have [...]

6 reasons independent learning is important

I distinctly remember when I was a high school student, my instructors usually advised me to spend more time to study on my own after each class. Then, some teachers would go extreme to recommend that I had to spend double time in self-learning for the time I studied at school. [...]

4 reasons people go to school

Working with students of different age, background and ability, I am usually asked a question ‘Why should we go to school?’ Personally, I believe this question is crucially important for any student to ask their instructor, and its answer is worth studying and clearing knowing.

Also, I am a kind of [...]

The purpose of getting scholarship to study abroad

Have you ever encountered with any particular kind of question that you feel somehow lazy to answer even though you know the answer quite well? Personally, I have and the question is ‘why do you not go for a scholarship to study abroad?’

Actually, there are many reasons that [...]

8 Wrong Reasons to Take 2 Majors at the Same Time

In late 2005 when I first enrolled in the degree of Bachelor of Education (in TEFL) at the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), there were around 30 students in my class, and more than half of them majored in another skill in another university. Today, while my sister is taking her Bachelor of [...]

Lessons to learn from Stampede in Cambodia

The date was November 22, 2010. The event was the third day of Water Festival, one of the biggest annual celebrations in Cambodia wherein some 2, 3 or even 4 million Cambodian fellows flock to Phnom Penh to watch concerts, buy products from hundreds of commercial booths, and walk along the [...]

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