norvin’s very intriguing class on ‘how to remember everything’ is just the sort of “unpredictable education” we hope to offer at trade school singapore. we can’t wait to see what memorisation techniques he has to share in class! in the meantime, here’s more about the man himself:

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please introduce yourself to our tradeschoolers

norvin likes to learn random skills in his free time since he is trying to master meta-learning (learning about learning). after learning how to roller blade, pick locks, and hypnotize, he stumbled across memorisation techniques. after realising how with a mere 50 hours of self-teaching, he could remember a thousand numbers, norvin has now teamed up with Openlectures for a simple mission - to end the miserable practice of rote memorisation in singapore. a nation wide circuit of lecturing at junior colleges is already planned, and you can see a snapshot of one here.

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five things that you see / use every day

http://www.singaporelawwatch.sg/slw/index.php
http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/
http://www.aldaily.com/
a planner
a diary

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five classes that you would like to take at trade school

1. how to start a business with low capital
2. drawing on t-shirts
3. magic tricks that require no props
4. origami
5. breaking out of the box