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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Education: The Examined Life, Age 8 - NYTimes.com

Via by Eóin Cunningham
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/education/edlife/18philosophy-t.html

"A few times each month, second graders at a charter school in Springfield, Mass., take time from math and reading to engage in philosophical debate. There is no mention of Hegel or Descartes, no study of syllogism or solipsism. Instead, Prof. Thomas E. Wartenberg and his undergraduate students from nearby Mount Holyoke College use classic children’s books to raise philosophical questions, which the young students then dissect with the vigor of the ancient Greeks."
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