2023 ESSAY TITLE 4: POWER

TOK Talk · 19 Title 4 Power

In this episode, I met with Dr. PS and Janka Steinkamp (both IB English teachers to talk about Essay Title 4: Do you agree that it is “astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power” (Bertrand Russell)? Discuss with reference to the natural sciences and one other area of knowledge.

I hope you find this episode as interesting as we did. If you’re looking for the TOK Essay Title Posters I mentioned, you can find them here.

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance” (Confucius in 500 BC)
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Links:

• Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
• Sir Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms  TED Talk
• Decolonise IB: How international school alumni are mobilising to diversify the expat curriculum | by Xoài David | Medium
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: "Europe and the West must also be decolonised" | CCCB LAB
• The Big Bang Theory S06E08 The 43 Peculiarity - Wormhole generator test

Music is courtesy of Plastic Daizi Band, just one of our warm up sessions from many moons ago.